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And not only that, this could be considered the beginning of season three. Ron Prashins. Congratulations, Luan Adel. That's the count.
It's 100 full length episodes. Well, there's a lot of wiggle going. You have extra episodes of the Russell's full length. Whatever.
This is a confusing podcast. Pretty formula to call it. So this time, it's things you're really going to be focusing on a product. You're focusing on a product that is, to lose words, Prince formed his life.
He's going to tell you all about it in this one. It's the Neo 120 Luxe today. Lu has installed two of them in his own home. And then also two in his parents' home.
Me. You did that? Oh, Mr. Anti-Handyman.
Non-Handyman. Not so handyman. Lou Barlow. But you know, Ac, so.
So this is a. I used to use too much oil. No, your ass. I think.
I'm trying to keep my ass whole clean until I got the bidet. That's my first. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt that. That's the demo of the commercial that I made for this wonderful thing that we have in both of our toilets.
Mm. Now. We have two functioning toilets. Now, one of my favorite things about going to Japan is the toilets because they clean your butt.
They put a, there's a little mechanism that puts a spray in a cleanzer. Is that every toilet there? Yes. Oh, wow.
Yes. So like 99%. Wow. Yeah, it's, it's just fully integrated into their toilets.
Yeah. So they. Easy to install. But they.
So I. You can get. It literally is because if you can do it. So it, um, yeah.
So I just wanted to, I was, when I was in Brazil the day that I left, we had a really nice lunch myself, Noel, our sound engineer, allish, our tour manager, and Jake, our guitar buddy, we all went out for a really nice lunch before our flight in the neighborhood that we were staying in. We did this really. This is episode number 100. Take it away.
We're going to die. Okay. I thought we already, wait. So are we going to start?
We're not going to start at one or wait. So we're going to just go 100. What do we do? Yeah, we did last time we did it.
It's not like we had a special episode number for season two. I don't know. I don't know. It's, it's, it's almost meaningless.
It doesn't matter. There are ways to do it that, that real podcast do. Oh, like they start the season and then if they do like, like right now this would be three zero one right. That's another podcast because it would be season three episode.
Oh one. Yeah. Yeah. But that's not us.
That's not the only real. We're free form. We're making it up as we go alone. We're coming.
We're going or whatever. So I was in Brazil. I'm having this really nice lunch and the discussion of Brazilian toilets came up and in our, I've noticed when I was there, there's like a little, there's like a little spray thing kind of like you find on a kitchen sink, like sort of holstered on the side of the toilets. And I thought that was like some cleaning thing and maybe it was only in hotels, you know, like, but then one of my travel mates enlightened me that, oh no, that's actually a bidet.
That's what you spray your ass with. So it's more like a handheld, you do it yourself. Do it yourself and it's like one of those clothes kind of like a hose and then I'm like, what the? On the spray setting.
And I'm thinking like, wow, that's, I don't know how that you would do that. Like if you reach just the mechanics of that seemed difficult to me to sort of take a kitchen, a kitchen sprayer that you would use, but then to use it on your crotch or your butthole. Can you see, I like that better because I don't like the bidet. We've talked about this because I don't want the water coming from the back toward my butthole because then women, people have a vagina, they can't have any poop near the vagina because you can get UTIs, you don't have any of that.
So you know, Japanese toilet. You wipe from front to back. They address that with a Japanese toilet. Exactly.
And so if you had the little handheld thing, you could like really specifically angle the water away. I guess what I'm doing, I'm attempting to do with this episode is to advertise this and encourage men to get it. Yeah. Because I think, so anyway, so I guess now that you're actually talking about, I could see that, but still, if you're using a kitchen sprayer on your butthole, that's a lot of collateral splatter.
Well, did you use the sprayer? Well, no, because we laughed right after that so I didn't have an opportunity to do it. Maybe it's not a wide spray. Maybe it's more like a...
The other thing too is if you're doing that and there is collateral, it's actually going back on your hand and possibly back to the sprayer. It just seems sloppy to me. And then also spreading it all over the toilet. It seems sloppy.
It just seems sloppy. Like the back of the toilet, maybe the seat, maybe up your back. Right. And we all agreed that that was gross.
Oh. And then I said, do you know about the Neo 120 Lux bidet to my friends? And they didn't. And I said, this is a...
They didn't know none of them? None of the new that you can order this thing on... On Amazon. And...
Very reasonably priced, by the way. Yeah. Was like 30, 40 bucks. It's like 38.99 was what I saw the last quote.
38.99. Yeah. And it's really... And you just attach the water from your toilet tank.
You turn off the water, of course. Okay. And the toilet. And then you just attach that.
And then you sort of install. It's very easy to install underneath the seat. And then you install it and then it will... And then, yeah, there's a little dial there.
Yeah, you get your own little pad. Like on the side, it's like a little like... Control panel. Yeah.
And you turn it on. You can adjust the strength. Oh yeah, you can really blast yourself. But you don't have to.
You can do a gentle spray. You can actually widen the spray or have it be more centralized. This is what I was telling my friends. I was telling them about how great this was.
And then, as I was peeking, you know, as I was like just stipulating and looking at them and they're kind of looking at me like, oh, he's telling us something that's very important to him. They're looking at me. And then I had the realization that I should really make a commercial for our podcast. Ding.
Beautiful little like... This is the next commercial. How do they live? How do they live without this bidet?
How have they... This to me feels like everyone during the pandemic should have had that light bulb moment where they're like, oh, oh, we can't. I think people are just intimidated by it. They fear what they don't know.
No, for instance, said, well, it's not that hard, but you do have to hook up the water in the cold water and I'm like, no, you don't. That's a whole extra step. Well, warm water would be better. I'm like, well, yeah.
It's not a spa. It's not a Japanese toilet. Look, it's not a Japanese toilet. It's not a Japanese toilet.
Yeah, you can control the temperature. You can control the angle. What's I'm talking about? Yeah, it's very...
I mean, that's a system though that... They're built into the toilets. I mean, that's part of the toilet. All I'm going to say is the one in Brazil, I feel like I could experiment in the meantime and probably find a happy medium with having my own wand.
But like, you know, women in wands, we know what to do, okay? But I'm just saying that like... For guys, yeah, you just want to like sit your ass down, have the little lever pop open and have it spray your ass. And I kind of like, I'll do a little wiggle to make sure it hits all the angles.
I'm sure you do. Do a little dance. Imagine how do you look like a soft bear. There goes left, right, center.
So, can I ask you this? When you use the bidet... Which I do. Let's say you take a shit.
But daily. But daily. Multiple times. Amazing.
But daily, yes. Okay, so when you take a shit, do you go straight bidet or do you like kind of go, well, I need to like check out a little bit with the toilet paper for... Oh, no, no, no. You just go...
Like to the bidet, right? No, you don't want to use... The point is... It's to use less toilet paper.
The point is to use less toilet paper. Yeah, and also to clean your ass better. Something that I think could be described as a toilet paper addiction. It's not like...
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Making ass whole free again. One bottle with an eye. I really hope and pray. Mmm.
The more people... That you become a spokesperson for this product and they sponsor. Please, dear God, let them sponsor this podcast and put Lew in their commercials. And he will also do some installations, videos, and you can really use them up.
To that end. To your end. To that end. And to rear end.
Mmm-hmm. I made that commercial exactly one minute long. I love it. It's ready.
It's ready for TV. It's ready for YouTube. Sure. For everything.
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We did so far. No. Clear that you are not being compensated anyway. Not yet.
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This is actually my way to... 38.99. Yeah. This soundtrack man is on my side for season three.
This is... He's kind of busting the balls a little bit. Maybe season three, we just really pound it. It's like a resume out there.
We're just putting our resume out there. I started to listen to other podcasts recently. Yeah, you have been branching out. And almost all of them are some form of advertisement.
Yes. It's either shameless. We need to be more shameless. Someone talking about the book they just wrote.
It could be fascinating. I mean, no shade on that. It could be a health product that maybe really helps people. Sure.
I'm not really there yet. But hey, I like hearing about it. It's all forms of commercials. It's like people kind of like, so yeah, maybe that's it.
That's just what we're going to do season three. This is the one. Here's the thing. I was going to make a hundredth episode.
That was a real celebration of the podcast where I brought back like old bits that we did. And we decided to be crowd sourced. We said, hey listeners, what were your favorite parts? And we got two responses.
One was not really a response. It didn't really suggest anything. And then the other one suggested something that actually did make some nice suggestions. But that was only a great thing.
I think it was a great thing. I think it was a great thing. I think it was a great thing. This is all for me and you.
This is for us. This is for me, you and for A Track Man. A couple other people and thank you. A couple other people.
Yeah. Me and Dyrally. Thank you for having me. A little podcast.
It's a little podcast. We have no sponsors. Nothing. They were just sitting in our studio.
But you know one thing I want, I think in season three I want to make clear that I'm here. I want to make the world a better place. You know, like... One asshole at a time?
Definitely. Yeah. And so this product, the Neo 120 Luxe-Day, does just that. It saves resources.
It saves resources. And we're talking about saving a ton of money on toilet paper. A lot. And also trees.
And trees, of course. Oh my gosh. It's better for the environment. I use...
I mean that theme song, that's not an exaggeration. From a young age, you know, you kind of... You enter the bathroom. I think a lot of us may be in the 70s, or the 60s, 70s, 80s, perhaps.
The bathroom was like, our parents didn't necessarily tell us what to do. You were just kind of sent into the bathroom to take a crap. And they didn't necessarily. And there could be exceptions.
And please, again, ground sourcing here. If you all want to let me know. Anyone. Anybody.
Out there. I mean, they made a cursory effort. Is there a sound of a tumbleweed that could like, like, the flow by? Yes, I can definitely get that going.
I don't know if I'm going to do that for this spot. I have to leave. I know you're going to go. Very soon I'm leaving to the UK.
But, you know, within minutes of completing this episode. But anyway, so how I coped with the bathroom experience, I made it my own. And I used... I really wanted to be clean.
I really did. You did not want to have dirty butthole. Dirty butthole is an itchy butthole. And I don't want an itchy butthole.
Ew. I don't want to be digging in my butt. I didn't want to be doing that. I didn't want to have any dingleberries hanging off your...
No, I wanted to be clean. So that actually entailed using, you know, so much toilet paper. It can lose a lot. And there wasn't anybody there policing me.
So you know, by the time that I was an adult and you know... You were full on abuser of toilet paper. Yeah, when I went to Japan, I was just like, okay, like many other day-to-day things. The Japanese really got it down.
Right. You know, good food and then good elimination habits with these wonderful toilets that they have, the total toilet. That's so cool. The toilets are called toto.
I want a toto-do. Do they sell those here in the States? Like I want the one where the woman splashes from the front, the female... I want to...
I went to a house... I went to a house... Actually, I played a wedding reception in Los Angeles. And there was a toto-do toilet.
Who was wedding reception? I don't remember. Well, some guy that was in the record industry and he had... I think he had like signed weezer.
Weezer were at this party. Oh. Yeah. At the wedding reception.
And I was there to play a couple of songs. Wow. For the couple. Oh.
And so was a toto-do toilet. In the house? In the bathroom. Was it a house?
Yeah, it was kind of a house. Yes. It was a house. Okay.
It seemed like a house-slash workspace. It was near Chinatown and LA. Oh, interesting. Yeah, but they had a toto toilet.
Now, I think that might be the only one I've seen domestically. Mm-hmm. Although, you know what? What?
They had one in the Mall of America at that sushi place we went to. Oh, yes. That was awesome with the robots. Yeah, with the shitty robots that the employees hated.
The employees were very frustrated with those robots. It sold us ongoing there. It did. Yeah.
It did sell us ongoing there. I didn't have to work with it. Yeah, the people that were working with the robots. That's one woman in particular was ready to- She would just shut the robot off when she walked by.
She was just mantel. She was practically beating it. Yeah, she would put it on pause when she walked by and it would stay on pause or it would just stop because it was funny. It was supposed to deliver our drinks.
Yeah, it's like moving tray that delivers drinks to you. But they did have one there, but it didn't work. Mm-hmm. So I've seen two domestically.
Okay. But yeah, man, if I had money, like money, tomato. Yeah. God, I wonder how much one of those toilets go for?
I would say at least a thousand. At least. Yeah, you know what? You don't need to have a toto.
As long as you have the Neo Luxe-Day. If you have the Neo Luxe-Day, although like you said, you have reservations. I mean, yeah. I...
As a very clean person, you do have reservations. Yeah. Because here's the thing is you can still use baby wipes. If you're a lady and you're worried about the poop going near the vagina, which you do not want to happen, you can...
Baby wipes, even the organic ones, even the ones with packaging, that tell you how good they are for the environment. Oh, no. And congratulate. No, I know.
The wipes that congratulate you for buying them. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You're the best.
Well, then maybe we need to just save up for that toto. Oh, yeah. No, I'm down. 2025, guys.
Mm. We're going to need a plumber for that. That cannot be self-installed. No, we definitely need a plumber for that.
Well, I encourage any men, you know, where the spray is not going to get directly on your very sensitive and UTI. Mm-hmm. You're not going to want to... No, if you get some poop splatting on your nutsack, you can still just wipe it.
I mean, that's my thing though. Are you checking your nutsack though to make sure that that's not ending up with pooflex? Well, with my two squares of toilet paper that I actually fold. I will demonstrate this on the YouTube video.
I fold them. And then I do do a real wipe around that whole area. The whole container. To make them sure that, yeah, there's not...
No, I like to be clean. Oh, I know he's clean, guys. Yep. I'm clean.
There's often a mess. I often make a mess getting clean. And this is the point. This is the point.
Mm-hmm. Is that when I did use an extraordinary amount of toilet paper, I made a big mess. Yeah. Because the other thing is this is gross.
And I apologize for what I'm about to say. Okay. Well, one thing that I did do with the toilet paper, and I started as a young kid is I would wet the toilet paper in the sink. Well, that makes sense.
That's what I tell Izzy what to do. If she's in public and she has a sloppy dump, or she knows she's going to have like maybe a poop, I'm like, you know, get some stuff wet before you go into your stall, like a toilet paper or paper towel. Here's what can happen with that. What?
That the toilet paper can sort of disintegrate with the waters. Well, of course. And then you can like shed these little worms. Of course.
It's not ideal, honey. Little worms of shitty toilet paper that fall to the floor and gather around the toilet. No. That's disgusting, actually.
Exactly. So you might have a clean butthole, but what you've left is regrettable. Ew, ew, ew. Now my late friend, Mark Harris, one of my memories of him.
I have so many memories of this guy. There's an episode. He didn't leave those shards everywhere. I went into the bathroom after him and I found his shards.
No. I did. And once I took a shower after him and he left. He's mad at you right now.
Once I took a shower after him and he left, he placed pubic hairs on the wall. What? This guy. I'm going to put a link here.
I'm really going for it with his death here. It's been over a year and a half now. Fair game, huh? Wow.
Anybody who's curious about Mark Harris. The human care ended up on the wall. Of the shower. How did I get there?
I kind of thought it was a prank that he was playing on me. Ew. But gross. Yeah.
That's gross. And then I didn't really follow up on it. If anybody wants to know more about my friend, Mark Harris, I'm... Just you could link to those old episodes.
I think I dedicated two or three episodes to him because he used to... I don't know. He sent me a cassette tape of prank phone calls when we were like 13 or 14 years old. Or maybe older than that, but when we were teenagers.
But yeah, I saw Mark's little things, his little... And then after that, that actually changed me. And then I was like, oh, because then I would really look. After doing that myself, I would really go looking.
I want to describe those things. They're almost like little worms. It's almost like a joint. Alright.
Tiny, tiny, tiny rolled joint. No. No. No.
No. As we'd... Congratulations on a total... ...allegant commercial.
I guess that's the direction now. It was going to be talking to you on that. Totally. Shameless.
No. We're ready. Any day now. I want a total toilet.
You're playing... And the next month you're playing with your band, the Folkin' Ocean, which you're leading onto. Here, see where Shameless is great. Get home, you've got one day, and then you're playing with Dinosaur Junior, the three shows in California, and you're coming home.
And shortly after that, you're going to be playing a show with Sabadone Seattle. That is fucking crazy. It is. It's three of your bands playing in a month.
Totally unprecedented. Totally. Congratulations on that. Oh, my gosh.
Alrighty. I like seeing three four-track men. Mm, he's nice to hear you. Yeah.
I know. Helping Shamelessly promote you. Yeah, but it's true. I have all three of my band bands.
There really is nothing else. I mean, I could play... Has this ever happened in the history of your career? Never.
Folkin' Ploge and Dinosaur Junior and Sabadone in a month. I know. In an actual character. So wild.
Bam. Well, I mean, it's sort of a combination of mid-November to mid-December. But it's within 30 days. Yes.
That's... Anyway. Yeah. I'm serious.
Everybody, look into this Neo 120 Luxe bidet. It doesn't even have to be the Luxe version. There's just a regular bidet version. I'm not...
I think they're just called Luxe bidet. I don't know. I thought that was like the special one. Is it?
I don't... Okay. Well, check it out, guys. Guys.
And guys in particular. Guys. You know, maybe not women. Maybe you don't want to deal with the splatter aspect.
You don't want to deal with... Well, it did. You know, women know how to take care of their buttholes. Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe there's a way to make the Luxe bidet work for a lady. I mean, I use it. I use it.
I just have to be very careful. Oh, you do use it. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. I thought you just weren't using it at all. Just straight wipes. Yeah.
It's a delicate touch. I have to really make sure it's all very... Again, also clean and tidy. I don't think I've ever shared my nickname for you.
What? When we first started to live together, I delicate. Oh, yes. Yeah.
Yes. Okay. Adele kit. That's me.
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