While it is April first (at least somewhere in the world at the time of posting), this is no joke. We have speculated that we can talk about anything for an hour: even an hour dedicated to poop! We recently mentioned that ability again and got challenged to finally prove that we can keep a talk about feces interesting for an hour.
We have accepted that challenge!
In fact, we not only talk about poop for an hour…at 1:05:09 into this week’s show, Christopher interviews his mom about pooping when he was a baby…and many other things. Yep, for the first time ever, there is another person featured on Men in Gorilla Suits — the person who brought Gorilla Christopher into the world! (It’s one of Christopher’s favorite moments in any podcast he’s ever done.)
But before the chat with Christopher’s mom, we begin with this important question: when is the last time you shit yourself?
With one half of the podcast solidly into middle age and another climbing that direction, we chat about whether or not we’re more concerned with regularity than we’ve been in the past.
But we never make a show all about us…
There’s no classy way to address the turd in the urinal seen by most men in a restroom while on a road trip. It’s one of life’s greatest mysteries — and we devote some time to talking about how and why this phenomenon exists! After that, we stick around public restrooms and talk about whether or not we are people who fear pooping in public. (Also, whether we’re fond of the courtesy flush when pooping.) Then it’s all about the worst public restrooms we’ve ever seen. (And a tale of an open cesspit in Canada into which campers were expected to defecate.)
Poop has smeared its way into pop culture; we spend a bit of time discussing our favorite songs about poop before talking about our favorite poop scenes in television and film. After that, we take a wild guess at how many words we’ve read in our lifetimes while pooping.
Find out why we think poop is used so often in humor…as well as naming our favorite euphemisms for pooping.
We all have favorite poop stories, right? Well, even if you don’t, we do…and we’re not afraid to share them.
We wrap it all up by having what might be the only serious moment in this week’s show…when we talk about…THE FUTURE OF POOP!!!
We almost fear saying, “Share your best poop stories in the comments below,” but if you make it through this episode (and the interview with Christopher’s mom after the usual outro music), you’ve earned the right to write on our online bathroom stall wall…
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I recently had an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (yes, that’s a word), a colonoscopy, a Catscan, a postponed-at-the-last-minute capsule endoscopy (scheduled too soon to abstain from iron supplements), all requiring the ingestion of large amounts of heavy-duty laxatives… And I go for my second try at a capsule endoscopy next Monday. So, yeah, I’ll skip that first question.
That sounds absolutely miserable. I understand skipping that first question — and I hope everything gets straightened out soon!
OK I gotta drop a South Park deuce right here:
https://youtu.be/R_aDOVmn6dE
https://youtu.be/_ABUYLeyR3k
Yes, I watched the entire deuce in the urinal episode before recording this. South Park understands poo!
I once opened the door to a restroom stall at a rest stop and wondered “Why would somebody be shoveling mulch in here?” True story. But the worst restrooms I’ve seen were in some of my recurring nightmares. Masterpieces of towering waste and trash and rot and stench.
I hate those cartoon bear Charmin commercials.
What execs decided NOT to fire their ad agency after seeing those?
My mom hates the Charmin bears. I never thought about the commercials either way. Obviously, a play on “Does a bear shit in the woods?” So it won some points with me based on that.
But then the toilet paper on the backside of baby bear commercial happened. And I understood my mom’s hatred for the commercials. Then Shawn mentioned it, and now you. Apparently, you can head up a club because they don’t seem to be everybody’s favorite commercials. A quick search online reveals how hated the commercials are. Here’s something from a local alternative paper: http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2013/05/charmin_bear_must_die.php
Another deuce:
http://www.ryot.org/man-busted-hiding-porta-potty-covered-feces-peeping-women/348237
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/kenneth-webster-enlow-septic-tank-spies-_n_3562103.html?
Poo fetishes and coprophilia are more common than one would think. People (almost always men) will pay money just to HEAR someone (usually a woman) talk about it on the phone.
Years ago, I remember reading that some men had a fetish for point of view shots of women pooping on clear glass plates.
Of course, being the skeptic, I had to research. What I found was horrifying. Yes, I’d imagine if a guy gets off on being covered in Saran wrap and being defecated on (or just outright pooped on) that even hearing poo talk would do something for them. Which is why I think the deuce in the urinal is just what Shawn said: someone who thinks it’s funny, or what I said: that it’s marking not so much a territory, like peeing on things…but saying to other poop lovers, “Brothers, you are not alone!”
(In my younger days, I would now feel compelled to poop in a urinal, just to say I did…)