CLASSIC: Why don't Americans use bidets?

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Whether you're royalty or a roaming vagrant, a President or a pauper, one thing's for sure: At some point, you'll have to use the restroom. While sanitation isn't often brought up in polite conversation, it plays a vital role in human health, and over the centuries various civilizations have come up with some pretty innovative ways of staying clean. Globally speaking, the bidet is one of humanity's most popular sanitation technologies -- it's spread across Europe to Asia and beyond. So why don't Americans use these? Join Ben and Noel as they crack the case in this Classic episode.

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0:00.0	Fellow ridiculous historians, we are a family show.
0:04.3	We welcome you gratefully.
0:06.0	We are so excited that you have joined us for this classic episode.
0:11.1	And we want you to know, before you get into it, there are going to be a lot of poop jokes in this one.
0:17.8	Yeah, there was no way around it.
0:19.1	You know, it's kind of funny, Ben.
0:20.1	Last week's classic episode was about showing your butt.
0:23.4	This week's is about washing it.
0:24.9	We had a phase.
0:26.0	We had a phase.
0:26.6	It was a butt phase.
0:28.1	We also referenced this episode quite a lot as a good example of native advertising.
0:34.5	Because I'm not mistaken, Ben, we did successfully pitch this to a bidet company who
0:38.8	sponsored it back in the bidet.
0:42.9	When it originally came out, that will have been stripped out by now.
0:46.0	But, you know, it was, I think, a Tushy sponsored episode.
0:49.8	Yes, Tushy, supplier, bidetes.
0:52.6	Now, let me take a moment.
0:54.5	Fellow ridiculous historians to give some credit where it's due,
0:58.6	it's very important to me.
1:00.6	Noel, you and I were working on this episode.
1:04.3	Why don't Americans use Bidase?
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