Sometimes the best ideas come from dumb conversations with friends. Joe, like a mature adult, was talking to friends about wiping after doing a number 2. The group quickly realized that not a single one of them had the same exact technique when wiping. Sitting, standing, folding, crumpling, it was all over the place. Joe mentioned the convo during a brainstorm in the studio, and it only felt natural to take the debate about the "right way to wipe" to an absolute extreme. The Creepy DM award video proved that we had an audience willing to participate (since they were all fan submitted DMs). So we figured why not just survey people and see what their answers are. And if we're going to do that we might as well take it a step further and see if we can find any interesting trends by acquiring additional info like, gender, income, education, and more. And if we're going to do all that then we might as well get someone way smarter and capable than us to actually analyze the data to see if there it anything interesting. So we figured we had to get a data scientist involved. Luckily one of Joe's friends does this sort of thing for a living - though we promised him we wouldn't reveal his identity. He doesn't want his big fancy real job to find out he spends his spare time sorting through data about pooping. Don't worry Mike, your secret is safe with us. Kidding, that's not his name. To be honest we were absolutely shocked when over 11,000 filled out the survey! Do you realize how legit that number of participants makes this study. Is like a for real study now! Like an actual case study. We did it guys. We're basically sociologists. Or anthropologist. Or whatever it is. Scientists? Who knows. Maybe we'll win a Nobel prize, maybe not. Either way enjoy the interesting findings and thanks if you participated! Maybe this will even make you rethink how you wipe. - @joesantago & @gregdybec Business inquiries: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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