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Time to Take Back the Toilet

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4.632K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 32 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

So, Leva, here's a question for you today.

0:29.8

Would you agree that you and I are fundamentally pretty different people?

0:33.8

Yes.

0:34.8

Okay, I would too.

0:36.8

But of all the ways in which we're different, what would you say is maybe the biggest difference?

0:43.8

Probably that you like people and I don't.

0:45.8

Yeah, that's not what I was thinking of.

0:47.8

Okay.

0:48.8

Here's the one I'm thinking.

0:49.8

You seem to be almost entirely unaffected by your physical surroundings.

0:56.8

That's true. That's completely true.

0:59.8

Whereas you ridicule me for being too sensitive like if the lights go out or something,

1:05.8

you're like, hey, don't you just keep working. What's the problem?

1:08.8

But like when you're working or even you know, filling out your horse bedding stuff,

1:13.8

you could be in the desert, you could be in a room with 150 decibels,

1:17.8

and you're just a machine.

1:20.8

It doesn't matter to you.

1:22.8

Would you agree that that's a pretty fundamental difference between us?

1:25.8

I think so. Yeah, but there's a downside to it too, which is that when I get dragged to nice places,

1:30.8

I never appreciate it.

1:31.8

Yeah, you don't know how to behave.

1:32.8

I don't know.

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