177: The Problem with American Toilets

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Tim and Brady discuss more annoying words, more Wesleys come out of the woodwork, a swimming controversy, guitars, a famous koala, and the ways of America (including toilet design).

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0:00.0	What is the most amazing thing that happened to you today?
0:03.0	I've literally just woken up and I've come and had a shower.
0:06.5	Of course.
0:07.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:08.4	You're right.
0:08.9	And I've had marmalade on toast, cup of tea.
0:12.9	Come in here now, I've got a coffee.
0:15.2	I rode in the dark, in the early morning dark.
0:19.0	And I tell you one thing.
0:30.3	How many runners were running in front of the bike or across the road that I was, it was like running through pigeons, you know, when you go through a park and there's pigeons everywhere.
0:34.0	It was like runners everywhere in the dark, sprawling and jumping out of the way. Were you on a bicycle or on your scooter, my scooter, my? No, on my scooter, my Vespa, yeah.
0:38.0	They're just crossing the road and I go, whoa, hello.
0:40.8	And then every now and then there's a light in their hand, you know, because they're carrying a phone, they're listening to music. But often they just, it's just like, oh gosh, there's someone. Oh, gosh, there's someone else. and I trust that they can see me
0:52.1	because I've got a big light on and stuff.
0:53.7	But yeah,
0:54.7	that was real noticeable this morning.
0:57.0	Interesting.
0:58.0	Well, else. And I trust that they can see me because I've got a big light on and stuff. But yeah,
0:54.8	that was real noticeable this morning. Interesting. Well, not massively interesting, but you did the
1:01.1	best you could. Well, I know, the day is just beginning. But I was impressed with all of them. I was
1:07.0	like, oh, wow, there's another one. Oh, God, on you. Gosh, it's still dark. Off you go.
1:30.5	Not for me. Not for me early mornings. No, no. What's the most exciting thing that's happened to you? You've had a full day, so the pressure's on you a lot more. I went to the tip, which is always a very exciting time for me, as you know. I love a visit to the tip. Yeah. And there's a new system there where you have to like book your
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