Flightless Bird: Toilets

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David sets out to discover why the water level on American toilets is terrifyingly high, almost filling up the entire toilet bowl. Joined by Monica, he tries to figure out why it’s so hard to find a public restroom and why the gaps in the doors are so big. David talks to urban sociologist and toilet expert Harvey Molotch, who explains why public restrooms unchanging - segregated into male and female sections - seem to be locked in time. We discover why so many horror films feature scary scenes in toilets and talk to a plumber about his biggest toilet disaster.

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0:00.0	I'm David Farrier, a New Zealander who ended up accidentally marooned in America, and
0:05.5	I want to grasp what makes this country tick.
0:08.6	And something I'm grasping a lot at the moment, my bladder.
0:12.2	Because while America may be the land of plenty, it's definitely lacking one key thing,
0:17.3	toilets.
0:20.6	According to the World Public Toilet Index, America is truly pitiful when it comes to its
0:25.3	number of public restaurants.
0:27.8	Iceland has the most impressive toilet stats, with 56 toilets publicly available for every
0:33.6	hundred thousand people.
0:35.4	New Zealand's in third place, with 45 toilets per 100,000 bladders and bowels.
0:41.1	America has a pitiful 8 toilets per 100,000 people, a dead Thai with Botswana.
0:48.4	To find out what was going on, I knew I'd need to take a metaphorical deep dive into
0:52.6	the toilet bowl of America, and flush.
0:56.1	Hard.
0:57.3	So, drop your pants and sit down on your nearest porcelain throne.
1:01.9	This is the Toilet episode.
1:04.3	Five lists.
1:07.3	Five lists.
1:10.3	Five lists per touch down in America.
1:14.4	I'm five lists per touch down in America.
1:20.7	E-surprise by those stats, at all.
1:24.1	100% right off the bat.
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