Toilets

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K 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 Ferrier, a New Zealander who ended up accidentally marooned in America, and I want to grasp what makes this country tick.
0:08.0	And something I'm grasping a lot at the moment, my bladder.
0:12.0	Because while America may be the land of plenty, it's definitely lacking
0:15.6	one key thing. Toilets.
0:20.4	According to the World Public Toilet Index, America is truly pitiful when it comes to its number of public restrooms.
0:27.0	Iceland has the most impressive toilet stats, with 56 toilets publicly available for every 100,000 people.
0:35.0	New Zealand's in third place with 45 toilets per 100,000 bladders and boughs.
0:40.0	America has a pitiful 8 toilets per 100,000 people, a dead tie with Botswana.
0:48.4	To find out what was going on, I knew I'd need to take a metaphorical deep dive into the toilet bowl of America and flush hard.
0:57.4	So drop your pants and sit down on your nearest porcelain throne.
1:01.9	This is the toilet episode.
1:04.0	Flagless.
1:07.0	Flightless.
1:10.0	Bird Touchdown in America.
1:13.0	I'm a flight. Fly This Bird Touch Down in America.
1:18.0	I'm a Flyless Bird Touch Down in America.
1:23.6	Easeer Price by those Stets? A hundred percent.
1:24.6	Right off the bat, I am very shocked.
1:27.8	The only close to peeing in my pants incident I've ever had was in England.
1:33.0	And I kept thinking, why the fuck aren't there bathrooms here?
1:38.0	For me, America was the land of toilets, the land of public restrooms.
1:43.0	And England didn't have any, I was super pissed.
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