Stool Pigeons

This week Tiffany takes us on a journey to the world's most interesting toilets as she reviews Lonely Planet's Toilets: A Spotter's Guide. Have you ever wanted to poop off a cliff, or on some of your most cherished moral principles? Now you can! At least vicariously through us. We also talk about why famous athletes should not eat fancy dog food, because believe it or not that very topic was in the news.

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Today we learn the answer to the eternal question: What does fiber and protein do to your poop? Also, what the heck is poop anyway? We finally go back to basics and follow your food from its delicious beginnings in your mouth to its tragic end in your toilet, and have some grand adventures in between.

Theme music: I Feel Fantastic by Jonathan Coulton, www.jonathancoulton.com

We did it, Stool Pigeons! We're into double digits. Welcome to

Do colonies of alligators really live in New York's sewers? How did New York's sewer system get started? And how would one go about bribing city officials in the 1890s? This week we discuss a ton of very useful information about how to get your poop on in New York City.

Theme music: I Feel Fantastic by Jonathan Coulton, www.jonathancoulton.com

Have you pooped at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello privies? Well we have, and believe us it's everything you would have hoped. This week we cover a variety of topics including Tiffany's trip to Monticello, a new poo museum on the Isle of Wight, and April Fool's Day pranks from our favorite poop companies.

Theme music: I Feel Fantastic by Jonathan Coulton, www.jonathancoulton.com

What is life? What is art? And what is the most beautiful type of animal dung? All important questions to be answered in this week's episode, where we talk about some of the most famous works of art featuring everyone's favorite waste product. Or in some case, creating our favorite waste product. And if that doesn't convince you, we also spend some time discussing the festive shape of men's butts.

Artwork discussed on the show:

Cloaca by Wim Delvoye: https://www.wimdelvoye.be/work/cloaca

The Holy Virgin Mary by Chris Ofili: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/global-culture/identity-body/identity-body-europe/a/chris-ofili-the-holy-virgin-mary

No Woman No Cry by Chris Ofili: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/no-woman-no-cry-view-in-light/bwEqkX2cKDce7Q?hl=en&l.expanded-id=ygGPI7L9OPC7TA

Artist's Shit by Piero Manzoni: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/excremental-value

Theme music: I Feel Fantastic by Jonathan Coulton, www.jonathancoulton.com

In the last few years scientists have developed some amazing new tools for learning about how our ancient ancestors lived: What they ate, what got them sick, how many Pauly Shore movies they watched. What is this incredible new technique you might ask? Well if you know the Stool Pigeons you've probably already guessed. That's right folks, this week we're talking about what scientists can learn from fossilized poop. And if you think we're not going to talk about cloning dinosaurs then you'd be very wrong!

Mike's bidet adventure last week was amazing, but was he in danger? Today, we bring on our first guest - a cyber security expert who discusses the likelihood and consequences of your toilet getting hacked. We also find out what happens when you get food poisoning on a 14-hour flight, and discuss some of the best - and worst - places to poop.

Theme music: I Feel Fantastic by Jonathan Coulton, http://www.jonathancoulton.com/

Are you pooping often enough? When you poop, do you take enough time? This week, we discuss the things we believe about poop that may not actually be true. Did you know that John Wayne died with 40 pounds of impacted poop in his colon? Good because that's totally false. But did Elvis? Listen in to find out. Also, hear about Mike's wet and wild week in which he used a bidet for the first time.

Sorry about the clicking noise in the middle. We're still working on perfecting our new podcasting equipment.

Theme music: I Feel Fantastic by Jonathan Coulton, http://www.jonathancoulton.com/

Why do we wear underwear anyway? Should we all be going commando? We ask famous TV personalities Mr. Whipple, the Charmin Bears, Zach Braff's TP Puppy, and more! Join us while we embark on a journey through some of television's greatest toilet paper commercials from Charmin, Cottonelle and Quilted Northern. Find out what old-timey 1960s grocers had to say about squeezability, what a magical animated quilter would think about your bathroom habits, and learn about the eternal debate: soft vs strong.

Theme music: I Feel Fantastic by Jonathan Coulton, http://www.jonathancoulton.com/