No coffee shop should have only one bathroom
Summary
A stranger on the subway starts with a take about restroom access, but Kareem shuts him down: Matthew Donovan already did that one. So the rider pivots. Coffee shops serve "diarrhea juice" but only have one bathroom with a shared key. His solution? Face-to-face toilets. That way New Yorkers can reconnect while doing their business. Kareem thinks people would just stay on their phones, but his new friend insists you've got to talk to the person you're pooping with. "How's your day? How's it going?" The conversation gets progressively weirder until they agree to test the theory in real time. There's a two-toilet bathroom in Bushwick. They head for the L train together.
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So, what's your take? Restrooms. They shouldn't be for customers only. Open the doors.
It's already been done. No. No. I went I went into a place.
No. This subway take has already been done. Really? You can't do it again.
Who said that?
Matthew Donovan.
Oh, I don't watch your show, so I don't know.
Okay. How about this? I'll go I'll hit you again.
So, what's your take? No coffee shop should have only one bathroom. Every single coffee shop I go to, they have one bathroom and everyone's sharing a key. You're serving diarrhea juice. You're serving the literal thing that makes me have to go number number dookie. How are we going to add more toilets to the coffee shops?
That's not my thing to solve.
They can't even afford. I'm like a consulting firm. I came up with the idea. You finish it.
You know, airplanes have more than one bathroom. Yeah, but you know how often I've been on a plane and one of them's out.
Never. They're always working. Not for me, dude.
No, there's no out of order on the plane dude.
You know, the only
There's no out of order on the plane. One of the only times I've ever flown first class in my life, the first class bathroom was broken. I didn't even get to have my little hand lotion. They have hand lotion in that one.
First of all, it's not called first class. It's called business class.
Something about you is off. Yeah, I'm balling, bro.
I like that, bro. I'm a baller.
Come on now.
You know what they could do? Just put another toilet in the bathroom and have us look at each other.
I was thinking side by side. Honestly, dude, the way that our society's been separating and we slowly are like losing empathy and being able to look each other in the eye with care and love. I think if all of our coffee shop restrooms had toilets that were facing each other, we'd come together
and also together.
No, no, but it's not like you're going to be looking at the other guy anyways. You're just going to be on your phone. No. If there's someone there, I'm going to talk to them. You're part of the problem if you can't look at them. Get off your phone and talk to the person in front of you
sitting on the toilet.
Yeah. I don't want to talk to them. I want to look at my phone.
Talk to them. Be like, "How's your day? How's it going?"
What? Man, you made this weird.
How did I make it weird? You're just staring at me. I'm saying you talk to the person you're pooping with.
I don't So, do you want to go poop right now?
Would you do that with me? Of course I would.
Come on. Come on. Come on. Follow us. I know a bathroom that has two toilets.
Where's it at? In Bushwick. All right, let's let's go to the L train. I hope the I hope the platforms on this side.