190. Time to Take Back the Toilet

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🗓️ 18 December 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Public bathrooms are noisy, poorly designed, and often nonexistent. What to do?

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0:00.0	Hey podcast listeners, before today's show begins I want to ask you to think about some
0:08.6	of the other stories we've brought you in the past year.
0:10.9	Like how failure can be your friend.
0:13.2	I failed for the first five or seven years.
0:16.1	Now I look back and I say why did I keep going that long?
0:19.8	Because of the shame I didn't want to admit failure.
0:22.8	We also talked about how great it is to admit what you don't know.
0:26.2	I don't know.
0:27.2	I don't know.
0:28.2	I don't know.
0:29.2	I don't know.
0:30.2	I don't know.
0:32.0	We told you why Japanese houses often get torn down even when they're not very old.
0:36.6	The structure fully depreciates after 30 years for detached houses and after 40 years for
0:43.8	condominiums.
0:45.4	We even launched a Freakinomics Radio game show.
0:48.3	Say it with me.
0:49.3	Tell me something.
0:50.3	I don't know.
0:53.0	And the mayor of London stopped by and took off his shoes.
0:56.8	I'm going to take a look at this.
1:02.0	Bringing you these stories costs money for producers, producers, healthcare insurance,
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