Toilet paper, known for being rolled.

Famous for being for wiping.

Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why toilet paper is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there folks. Hey there, Cipilopods in 2020. Wow, welcome to a whole new podcast episode. I know. The futuristic number.

Future, future, future. To me every year for the rest of my life will sound like a future number. It's baked in. It's cooked. Yeah. We got hover boots on now. We finally got them.

Right. And that anyone from the century is just like, yeah, it's the 20, whatever, you said, I don't know. Yeah, yeah. But this is a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name's Alec Schmidt, and I'm not alone in the distant future. I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie! Yes. What is your relationship to or opinion of toilet paper? I like to be clean. The thing is like I'm a big toilet paper consumer

in terms of, you know, just making sure everything is ship shape. But I also live in Europe in northern Italy.

Yes.

And we have this thing called a bidet.

Sure.

The day.

And it's a thing where it sprays water and you sit on this bowl and it sprays water at your butt.

Now, you do still need toilet paper.

It doesn't eliminate your need for toilet paper.

It just makes it, it just makes hygiene in general a little bit easier.

You still have the toilet paper, though, because you got to dry or wipe any I'm sorry but wipe any

residue like it's you know like there's I've learned from we'll talk about wiping all show it's cool

yeah I've learned from reading things online that a lot of people just kind of like leave things to

Jesus like they wipe once and they don't think about it and they

like they like sort of leave you know just like assume everything's like cool because you just sort

of like don't think about it and I'm baffled I don't know I'm just baffled but people who don't

really make sure that, you know,

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