The show was talking about rock climbing sites in British Columbia that are now offering poop bags for people to use, rather than leave their waste on the ground. Chuck then shares a story about a time he was on a trail in San Francisco and the urge to poop hit him....did he make it to the bathroom?
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00:00Even grosser than roaches in your pop?
00:06Oh no, what?
00:07How about bags of your poop?
00:09Oh boy.
00:11Andy's been doing some hiking and stuff.
00:13So keep this in mind, Andy, if you ever venture into rock climbing.
00:17Rock climbing?
00:18I don't know if I'll venture that far.
00:21Is that your next hobby?
00:22Yeah, that's my next hobby will be rock climbing.
00:25That's a big jump.
00:26That's a big, big jump.
00:28I just kind of go on some walks, on some trails.
00:31I even kind of stretched a little bit when I was calling what I do hiking.
00:35Next thing I know, I'm rock climbing.
00:37Yeah, that's a big jump.
00:39You might get that urge for adrenaline, you know?
00:42But there's a location in British Columbia where they're now giving people who are coming to climb the mountain some rock climbing, bags to poop in.
00:53Bags to, oh, because they have all that problem.
00:55I'm like, so like it's going to take, yeah, it's going to take so long to climb this thing that they basically know you're going to have to drop one.
01:03Yep.
01:04So they're saying there's been an explosion in the usage of the backcountry areas in the southwest British Columbia.
01:10The rock climbing is very much a part of that.
01:12So they're finding that there are issues with human waste, particularly in their more remote areas.
01:19And it said it's usually as dogs you find waste in the forest and blah, blah, blah.
01:22But they're finding human feces pretty much all over the place at this location.
01:27I can't imagine stepping in human waste.
01:31Yeah, that would suck.
01:32Because dog poop is bad enough.
01:34It's terrible.
01:35But human stuff.
01:37Human poop.
01:37Like, and the thing is, if you're like rock climbing and you put your hand in it.
01:41Oh.
01:43No.
01:43Then you slip.
01:44Slip and fall to your death.
01:46You plummet to your death.
01:47Somebody else's turd.
01:48Oh, my God.
01:49Oh, you're trying to reach up and you don't realize that you think that's a rock, but it's just a turd hanging over.
01:55Just squishes.
01:56It's a robust bag with powder inside that will turn liquid into gel.
02:00It's meant to be used as portable, single-use toilet in the wilderness or other situations where facilities aren't available.
02:06Okay.
02:06So, like, when I was in San Francisco with my kids, I took them there.
02:09There was, like, this one place you could go to.
02:13I think it's called the Mirror Woods.
02:16You see the Redwoods or whatever.
02:17And they have, like, different trails.
02:20They have, like, hiking trails.
02:21They have the beginner trail, the medium trail, and then the hard trail.
02:27Of course, I was like, well, the beginner trail, they were like, that's basically for senior citizens.
02:31So, I was like, okay, we're going to go on the medium trail.
02:33Let's not get insane or whatever.
02:35It ended up being a little bit longer than I thought it was going to be.
02:41And I know that it was probably whatever, three-quarters of the way, I was like, oh, boy.
02:47You had to go?
02:48Had to go.
02:51Now.
02:52Now.
02:52One of the worst feelings ever.
02:54That's so bad.
02:55Like, well, the fear that hits your stomach when that happens.
02:58Because, and this is the other thing.
03:00I don't know how much longer this thing's going to go for.
03:03That what they, basically, what they said to you, they were like, well, I should have done the beginner.
03:07But they said.
03:08Old person trail.
03:09They said to me, you know, they're like, listen, it's all in a loop.
03:14So, you start one way, you go all the way around, and then you'll eventually end up right back at the, you know, little gift shop or whatever.
03:21There's bathrooms there.
03:22And there's bathrooms there.
03:23Right.
03:23So, I am just determined I am going to make it back.
03:30Yeah, you have to tell yourself that.
03:32I mean, that's, it became everything.
03:34Like, my kids would want to stop at a tree or something.
03:37I'm like, shut up!
03:38Keep going!
03:38Keep going!
03:39Did you walk fast or slow?
03:40How did?
03:41It was.
03:41It was.
03:42That's a balance.
03:43You got to.
03:44Can I tell you?
03:45Was it a clenched walk?
03:46Too fast?
03:47It was.
03:48There was a clench.
03:49There were a couple clenched walk moments.
03:51So, the way that it was sort of hitting me was like these waves.
03:54So, you'd slow down a little bit?
03:56Like, yeah.
03:56And then I'd kind of, and sometimes I'd have to fully stop and be like, oh, look at this.
04:02This tree over here.
04:04And a lot of times there was nothing to look at at that spot.
04:07And it was like there was so many other people that they were just probably like, what is this stoic?
04:12This man stoically standing and observing really nothing.
04:17And, um, uh, I was, you know, my kids both knew.
04:21I was like, I was like, it's, this is bad, guys.
04:25What were they saying?
04:25It was Stella's concern of, well, because she can't.
04:29Well, she didn't want you to poop your pants.
04:30No.
04:30That's embarrassing.
04:31We're on a bus tour.
04:32I poop my pants.
04:33Oh, my God.
04:34I've got to go on a bus to somewhere else.
04:37No.
04:38This could not happen.
04:39This could.
04:40You've got teenagers.
04:41They're like, no.
04:42Yeah.
04:43Rowan said, he doesn't care if I poop myself or if I didn't.
04:46He was like, whatever.
04:47I don't care.
04:50Um, but.
04:51Go ahead, Dad.
04:51I was always thinking about the emergency of like, if you have to go off the trail and
05:01then you have to just do this, you know, and I feel like in these places, this is what they're
05:07encountering.
05:08So like if hundreds and hundreds of people a day are going to some of these, like, oh,
05:13you must see this B.C., you know, trail and are deciding I have to poop off to the side.
05:23It's people don't go as far as you think.
05:26Oh, yeah.
05:26Just go right around the first tree and then drop a deuce.
05:29So if you had, if this happened to you and those bags were around.
05:33Lise, I don't want to use a bag.
05:35I don't want to poop into a bag ever in my life.
05:38But would you have in this situation if those were available?
05:40But what it would have done, it would have given me at least peace of mind.
05:45You'd have felt better psychologically.
05:47Psychologically.
05:48Like there is better.
05:49It's like a safety plan.
05:50There's something here.
05:51But there's the other side of it.
05:52And because I always think this too, the closer I got to the gift shop area, like I could see
06:00it was like, like it was like, oh God, like it all of a sudden back there, everything
06:06was like, hey, we made it.
06:08We made it.
06:08We're going on.
06:08My brain was signaling.
06:10Yes.
06:11It was like, time to go.
06:12Time to go.
06:13And I'm like, no.
06:15Like Stella was like, go.
06:17Just go.
06:19She's screaming it.
06:21Run.
06:21I'll be in the gift shop.
06:23It like lit up and played music.
06:25Oh, listen, I'm telling you.
06:27But so.
06:28So you went in there?
06:29No.
06:29So I go.
06:30I'm like going to there.
06:32There's a cone.
06:34A cone?
06:35Yeah.
06:35Like out of order?
06:36They're in there cleaning it.
06:38No.
06:38Oh, the panic sets back in.
06:43Almost.
06:43My knees are given out from the pain of everything.
06:47And luckily it was like within like a couple minutes that the guy came out with a cone.
06:54But the best part was like everything was clean on the inside.
06:57It was like it wasn't the worst experience.
06:59That's nice.
07:00You could just pass it on, drop trowel, and release.
07:02Were you sweating?
07:03Do you think you could poop into a bag?
07:06Like I don't know if I could physically.
07:09Unless I put the bag down and then I'm over it like that.
07:12I would have to.
07:13There's no way I'm holding a bag.
07:15It seems like it would be.
07:16It would go one way and I would go.
07:17I don't know for a lot of people.
07:18I think.
07:19I'm pooping.
07:21I think I need a treat.
07:23I think you'd have to like, you'd have to like almost make it like a horse saddle.
07:27Oh, yeah.
07:27Like side to side like that.
07:29Maybe that's what they do.
07:30When I'm at least in number two, I'm also at least in number one.
07:33Yeah.
07:33Well, I think it's designed for that, too.
07:35So it's going to.
07:37Woohoo.
07:39Yeah.
07:39I think I'm horse saddling it as well.