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Title: Know Your Shit: What Your Crap is Telling You
Author: Shawn Shafner
Narrator: Shawn Shafner
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Release date: July 11, 2023
Genres: Disorders & Diseases
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Pushing For Change from the Bottom Up! Poop is a big deal. All people and all beings do it on any good day. It's basically at the center of everything. Know Your Shit lifts the lid off the potty taboo and breaks the stall doors down in search of the Perfect Poo. Along the way, learn what happens inside your...2023-07-111h 35
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Title: Know Your Shit: What Your Crap is Telling You
Author: Shawn Shafner
Narrator: Shawn Shafner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 01:35:01
Language: English
Release date: 07-11-23
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Genres: Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, General Comedy
Summary:
Pushing For Change from the Bottom Up!
Poop is a big deal. All people and all beings do it on any good day. It's basically at the center of everything. Know Your Shit lifts the lid off the potty taboo and breaks the stall doors down in search of the Perfect Poo...2023-07-111h 35Access Top-Rated Full Audiobooks in Literature, Comedy, Satire & ParodyKnow Your Shit: What Your Crap is Telling You by Shawn ShafnerPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679347to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Know Your Shit: What Your Crap is Telling You
Author: Shawn Shafner
Narrator: Shawn Shafner
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Release date: July 11, 2023
Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody
Publisher's Summary:
Pushing For Change from the Bottom Up! Poop is a big deal. All people and all beings do it on any good day. It's basically at the center of everything. Know Your Shit lifts the lid off the potty taboo and breaks the stall doors down in search of the Perfect Poo. Along the way, learn what happens inside...2023-07-111h 35
ZuLoo PōōdcastShawn Shafner Knows His Sh*t! (#18)On this episode of the ZuLoo Pōōdcast, Darin and Kelsey meet with Shawn Shafner, director and founder of The Poop Project, an arts and education program designed to change negative stigmas around pooping. We talk about Shawn’s new book and his many ventures in the world of sanitation.Stay Informed:ZuLoo 2021 Annual Benefit ReportUnited Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2015-2030World Health Organization’s 2020 global sanitation report Facts and Sidenotes:Connect...2022-06-0748 min
Just SustainabilityShawn Shafner - The Four Noble Poops
In the last part of our conversation, Shawn Shafner and I talk about the parallels between the POOP Project and Shawn’s coming-out process, we review some strategies for approaching difficult conversations (including: “The Shit Sandwich,” “Punch-Pull,” and “Respectful Conversation”). And, finally, we talk about the axioms of Shawn’s worldview: The Four Noble Poops.
Shawn Shafner is an educator, an artist, and an activist. He skillfully invites folks to join him in difficult conversations about uncomfortable (but necessary to discuss) concerning sustainability and equity (with a particular emphasis on poop and public sanitation). Shawn is the founder of the P...2021-06-1821 minThe Just Sustainability PodcastShawn Shafner - The Four Noble Poops
In the last part of our conversation, Shawn Shafner and I talk about the parallels between the POOP Project and Shawn’s coming-out process, we review some strategies for approaching difficult conversations (including: “The Shit Sandwich,” “Punch-Pull,” and “Respectful Conversation”). And, finally, we talk about the axioms of Shawn’s worldview: The Four Noble Poops.
Shawn Shafner is an educator, an artist, and an activist. He skillfully invites folks to join him in difficult conversations about uncomfortable (but necessary to discuss) concerning sustainability and equity (with a particular emphasis on poop and public sanitation). Shawn is the founder of the P...2021-06-1821 minThe Just Sustainability PodcastShawn Shafner - The Four Noble Poops
In the last part of our conversation, Shawn Shafner and I talk about the parallels between the POOP Project and Shawn’s coming-out process, we review some strategies for approaching difficult conversations (including: “The Shit Sandwich,” “Punch-Pull,” and “Respectful Conversation”). And, finally, we talk about the axioms of Shawn’s worldview: The Four Noble Poops.
Shawn Shafner is an educator, an artist, and an activist. He skillfully invites folks to join him in difficult conversations about uncomfortable (but necessary to discuss) concerning sustainability and equity (with a particular emphasis on poop and public sanitation). Shawn is the founder of the P...2021-06-1821 minThe Just Sustainability PodcastShawn Shafner - The Four Noble Poops
In the last part of our conversation, Shawn Shafner and I talk about the parallels between the POOP Project and Shawn’s coming-out process, we review some strategies for approaching difficult conversations (including: “The Shit Sandwich,” “Punch-Pull,” and “Respectful Conversation”). And, finally, we talk about the axioms of Shawn’s worldview: The Four Noble Poops.
Shawn Shafner is an educator, an artist, and an activist. He skillfully invites folks to join him in difficult conversations about uncomfortable (but necessary to discuss) concerning sustainability and equity (with a particular emphasis on poop and public sanitation). Shawn is the founder of the P...2021-06-1821 minJust SustainabilityShawn Shafner - Defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse
In the second episode with Shawn Shafner, Shawn and I spoke about defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse.
Shawn Shafner is an educator, an artist, and an activist. He skillfully invites folks to join him in difficult conversations about uncomfortable (but necessary to discuss) concerning sustainability and equity (with a particular emphasis on poop and public sanitation). Shawn is the founder of the POOP (The People’s Own Organic Power) Project, the creator and star of several (I would describe as avant garde — I mean he gets folks to do Kegels together in one of his performances) one...2021-06-1125 minThe Just Sustainability PodcastShawn Shafner - Defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse
In the second episode with Shawn Shafner, Shawn and I spoke about defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse.
Shawn Shafner is an educator, an artist, and an activist. He skillfully invites folks to join him in difficult conversations about uncomfortable (but necessary to discuss) concerning sustainability and equity (with a particular emphasis on poop and public sanitation). Shawn is the founder of the POOP (The People’s Own Organic Power) Project, the creator and star of several (I would describe as avant garde — I mean he gets folks to do Kegels together in one of his performances) one...2021-06-1125 minThe Just Sustainability PodcastShawn Shafner - Defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse
In the second episode with Shawn Shafner, Shawn and I spoke about defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse.
Shawn Shafner is an educator, an artist, and an activist. He skillfully invites folks to join him in difficult conversations about uncomfortable (but necessary to discuss) concerning sustainability and equity (with a particular emphasis on poop and public sanitation). Shawn is the founder of the POOP (The People’s Own Organic Power) Project, the creator and star of several (I would describe as avant garde — I mean he gets folks to do Kegels together in one of his performances) one...2021-06-1125 minThe Just Sustainability PodcastShawn Shafner - Defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse
In the second episode with Shawn Shafner, Shawn and I spoke about defecatory justice, Queerness, and liberatory discourse.
Shawn Shafner is an educator, an artist, and an activist. He skillfully invites folks to join him in difficult conversations about uncomfortable (but necessary to discuss) concerning sustainability and equity (with a particular emphasis on poop and public sanitation). Shawn is the founder of the POOP (The People’s Own Organic Power) Project, the creator and star of several (I would describe as avant garde — I mean he gets folks to do Kegels together in one of his performances) one...2021-06-1125 minThe Just Sustainability PodcastMeeting Shawn Shafner
In hindsight Shawn Shafner, also known as The Puru, played an important role in the creation of the Just Sustainability podcast. Several years ago, I spent several days hanging out and chatting with Shawn while he was performing and giving a number of talks at the University of Minnesota Morris. Speaking with Shawn led me to think more deeply about how poorly most of us within the academy (myself included) invite folks to join in our discourse and think more expansively about how we might be better hosts and offer more inviting invitations (which is exactly what I’m no...2021-06-0428 minThe Just Sustainability PodcastMeeting Shawn Shafner
In hindsight Shawn Shafner, also known as The Puru, played an important role in the creation of the Just Sustainability podcast. Several years ago, I spent several days hanging out and chatting with Shawn while he was performing and giving a number of talks at the University of Minnesota Morris. Speaking with Shawn led me to think more deeply about how poorly most of us within the academy (myself included) invite folks to join in our discourse and think more expansively about how we might be better hosts and offer more inviting invitations (which is exactly what I’m no...2021-06-0428 minThe Just Sustainability PodcastMeeting Shawn Shafner
In hindsight Shawn Shafner, also known as The Puru, played an important role in the creation of the Just Sustainability podcast. Several years ago, I spent several days hanging out and chatting with Shawn while he was performing and giving a number of talks at the University of Minnesota Morris. Speaking with Shawn led me to think more deeply about how poorly most of us within the academy (myself included) invite folks to join in our discourse and think more expansively about how we might be better hosts and offer more inviting invitations (which is exactly what I’m no...2021-06-0428 minJust SustainabilityMeeting Shawn Shafner
In hindsight Shawn Shafner, also known as The Puru, played an important role in the creation of the Just Sustainability podcast. Several years ago, I spent several days hanging out and chatting with Shawn while he was performing and giving a number of talks at the University of Minnesota Morris. Speaking with Shawn led me to think more deeply about how poorly most of us within the academy (myself included) invite folks to join in our discourse and think more expansively about how we might be better hosts and offer more inviting invitations (which is exactly what I’m no...2021-06-0428 min
SpaceBus | A Stellar Adventure to Start your School Day09: The Power of Poop w/ Puru Shawn ShafnerWhat’s in a poo? Shawn Shafner, the Puru (Artist, Educator, Activist), proves to Laika and Albie that poop is worth its weight in gold! Well, maybe not gold, but it’s got a lot more going for it than we think. You’ll never think of a #2 the same way again! Shawn Shafner is an artist, educator and activist. Creator of The People's Own Organic Power Project (www.thePOOPproject.org), he catalyzes conversation about sustainable sanitation for every pooper from preschool to college, from the floor of the UN to the mountains of Rwanda. In his...2020-09-1506 min
It’s Hot In HereThe People’s Own Organic Power (POOP!)We give this episode a #2 (out of 2). Co-hosts Audrey and Heena sat down with artist, educator, activist, and “The POOP Project” creator Shawn Shafner and University of Michigan Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Dr. Nancy Love. The two are experts in recycling waste, specifically the “waste” produced by our bodies. We caught Shawn in the … Continue reading The People’s Own Organic Power (POOP!) →2018-10-0500 min
It’s Hot In HereThe People’s Own Organic Power (POOP!)We give this episode a #2 (out of 2). Co-hosts Audrey and Heena sat down with artist, educator, activist, and “The POOP Project” creator Shawn Shafner and University of Michigan Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Dr. Nancy Love. The two are experts in recycling waste, specifically the “waste” produced by our bodies. We caught Shawn in the … Continue reading The People’s Own Organic Power (POOP!) →2018-10-0501 min
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Here We Go “Around the Toilet” with Charlotte Jones and Jen SlaterDisability, gender and sexuality, politics of public space, and intersectional accessibility. Some enchanted conference, across a crowded plate of beans at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr. Charlotte Jones and Dr. Jen Slater discovered a shared passion for poop. One year later, “Around the Toilet” was born, performing collaborative arts-based research on bathrooms as places of inclusion and/or exclusion. Shawn Shafner (The Puru) sits down with the dynamic doo-o to discuss how restrooms can become inaccessible because of age, gender, ability, religion, profession and more, plus the online tools, videos, and corrugated cardboard water closets they created to entice designers towa...2018-05-311h 08
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Oh, SuSanA: Oxfam’s Esther Shaylor and the Online Sanitation PortalHuman-centered design, dignified aid, and internet innovation for water / sanitation. Engineer, mother, and communications expert Esther Shaylor introduces Shawn Shafner (The Puru) to the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA), a network of WASH stakeholders and online resources for all. Esther explains how market-based solutions are changing development practices, and we discuss the perils and virtues of Wikipedia, storytelling’s primal power, and why a batch of tasty biscuits is worth its weight in gold. Also mentioned: Backpacking, humanitarian, parenting, #MeToo, gender pay gap, engineering, market based approaches, refugee crisis, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Toilet Day, Wo...2018-04-0358 min
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)POOP TALK Director Aaron Feldman Brings Fecal Matters to FilmTaboo-breaking comedy, toilet knives, wiping stones and Jewish perspectives on poop. Celebrities are just like us! Director Aaron Feldman’s new film POOP TALK finally proves it, as Kumail Nanjiani, Eric Stonestreet, Dr. Drew and more divulge the contents of their colons. In this hour with Shawn Shafner (The Puru), Feldman explains how his own sensitive stomach inspired the film, why colon cancer specialists are praising its creation, and how a silly film about poop might also be a profound meditation on our common humanity. Finally, Mama Feldman has reason to be proud. Also mentioned: Sus...2018-03-0151 min
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Muck Makes Brass: Scaling Social Impact with Andy NarracottBusiness for social change, avoiding burnout, effective altruism, ineffective development practices, and the UK’s first luxury mobile toilet. The average person spends 80,000 hours working. Water / sanitation engineer Andy Narracott tells host Shawn Shafner how a near-death experience helped shift his 80k hour goals from making money to making change. Andy also hands out pro tips for social entrepreneurs and everybody else gleaned from his podcast Finding Impact. To start: find out your “why.” Hint: it’s probably not to gain more money and buy the latest phone. Also mentioned: India, Posh & Bex, Rider cup, Tiger Wo...2018-01-301h 00
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Shame on Who? Jennifer Barr Researches Development with DignityCommunity Led Total Sanitation as colonial hangover, how to poop while on the trail, shoehorning sanitation inside other sectors, and the importance of sunblock. Shawn “The Puru” Shafner spends an hour with anthropologist and Emory University PhD candidate Jennifer Barr. Jennifer spent 13 months living in Delhi and writing case studies of NGOs including Sulabh, India’s toilet-building monolith, and Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), a grassroots organization dedicated to the liberation and rehabilitation of all persons engaged in manual scavenging. It left her wondering: do current international development practices put human dignity and wellbeing at the center of their work? Where...2017-12-311h 02
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Wee My Valentine: An Hour with Wastewater Expert Nancy LoveBuilding water infrastructure in Addis Ababa, filtering Flint’s taps to keep kids healthy, and tackling traditional paradigms of where to put your pee. In this episode, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) sits down with Nancy Love--professor, pioneer, engineer and expert who literally wrote the book on Biological Wastewater Treatment. Often the lone woman in a male-dominated field, Nancy recounts how a little girl on the family golf course became one of the most sought-after professors at the University of Michigan, and hypothesizes why women might do a better job of solving humanity's problems. Plus, we’ll tour a centralized Wastewater Trea...2017-09-271h 00
The Finding Impact PodcastFIP 029: Breaking Taboo with Shawn Shafner2017-08-2347 min
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Art Monastery Project: Creativity, Community, Contemplation and a Compost ToiletWhat happens when you take a bunch of artists and put them together in a beautiful house in rural Vermont with a shared schedule dedicated to creativity? The Art Monastery Project. While in-residence at the monastery, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) hosts a roundtable of “Artmonks” at their finest. St. Francis, King Solomon, Buddha and a bunch of Rabbis all appear, alongside bat guano, bugs, and indigenous wisdom. Plus Abbess and co-founder Betsy McCall passes on a blessing to say when peeing on the planet. Core member Raphael Sacks explains why he's been sprinkling coyote urine on the garden. Voice doul...2017-07-3146 min
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Designing Out of the Pot: Mathew LippincottLegalizing green sanitation, kite safety through cartwheels, coming back from serious crisis, and all the ways your shower can kill you. In this special live episode, polymath Mathew Lippincott enlightens Shawn Shafner (The Puru) with his encyclopedic knowledge of everything. A designer who creates future technologies influenced by history, Mathew tells us how he helped create Portland’s emergency sanitation protocol, worked with RECODE to make compost toilets a legal option, and takes us under the leach field to see why most septic tank users are pooping straight into their aquifers. PLUS Shawn tells stories of his travels in Ni...2017-07-011h 23
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Empowered by Plastic Crotch Devices: Krista Eickmann from The pStyle CompanySustainable menstruation management, exploding the privilege to pee standing up, queering the country through relocation, and how to make money with minimal misery. In this episode, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) communes with Krista Eickmann, whose passion for menstrual cups and urine diverters once had her proselytizing these products straight from her purse to friends, family, and strangers on the bus. Reduce waste, remove the threat of toxic shock, and pee through your pants’ fly without removing layers of clothes or dropping full trou in the middle of the woods? They practically sold themselves. And now, thanks to the internet an...2017-05-311h 21
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Food Waste Wizard: Composting with WeRadiate’s Sashti BalasundaramGot some peanut shells, banana peels, and old newspapers? Then you might also have the power to generate renewable enegy, fight coastal erosion, control heavy metals, increase civic participation, create nourishing soil, and much more. That’s the magic of compost! Join Shawn Shafner (The Puru) and Sashti Balasundaram, eco-educator and entrepreneur behind WeRadiate, for a bewitching episode that explains how recycling our food scraps can reduce landfill loads, create green jobs, and save all of us money. Just in time for International Compost Awareness Week (May 7-13), this episode offers everything you need to start your own bin. So...2017-04-261h 10
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Poop on A Pedestal: The National Poo Museum’s Dan RobertsPassion or paycheck, profession or play, beauty or the butt? We tackle the art world’s opposing objectives to redeem or exploit our excrement, the politics of status (and Brad Pitt’s pet rat), the importance of whimsy, and how every poo has a story to tell. Join Shawn Shafner (The Puru) in conversation with Dan Roberts from the National Poo Museum on the Isle of Wight, just south of London. Imagine a room full of polished crystal balls lit beautifully from below, and inside each floats a delicate turd. Created by the Eccleston George art collective, Dan charts the...2017-03-311h 23
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Jurassic Poop: The American Museum of Natural History Loans Us Carl MehlingIn this Dinosaur-sized episode, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) joins paleontologist Carl Mehling for a deep dive into fossilized dung (called “coprolites”), the scientific method, and why truth is often controlled by the storytellers. Wanna borrow a bone from the American Museum of Natural History? Carl’s your man. We’ll go behind the scenes at the museum to understand how scientists study and share prehistoric resources, get the inside scoop on how fossils are formed, and learn what they reveal about the past, present and future. You’ll also get Carl’s tips for foraging wild food, loving your bacteria, an...2017-02-281h 32
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Turds, Trash and Tweets: A Conversation with Raul Pacheco-VegaIn this fast-paced hour, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) sits down with water and wastewater governance expert Raul Pacheco-Vega for a discussion that leapfrogs from the culture of flushing and bottled water, to the politics of poverty and what it means to pick trash for a living. Remember that kid who took their ball and went home when they didn’t get their way? Little Raul wanted to know how to keep the game going. Two Masters degrees, one PhD (with a double major in political science and human geography), and 15,848 Twitter followers later, Raul is one of the world’s fo...2017-01-271h 02
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Olga Gershenson: Transgender Rights to Toilets, Internet Trolls, and the Secret Language of NerdsIn 2005, Professor Olga Gershenson sent out a call for academic papers on public toilets--"the holy of holy for nerds." Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender, the book that resulted, virtually created the toilet studies field. But along with the nerds, geeks and dweebs who answered the call came bigots who slandered the premise and Gershenson personally via internet, mail and fax machine (remember 2005?). In this hour, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) chats with Gershenson about this experience and her work documenting Restroom Revolution, a student group on the UMass Amherst Campus fighting for transgender-friendly unisex bathrooms in 2001. We'll...2016-12-271h 07
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Public Women and the Public Convenience: An Hour with Barbara PennerWhat do you call a woman who’s not at home, and needs a private place to pee? A “public woman,” or “prostitute.” At least that’s what London’s men thought at the turn of the 20th Century. How far have we come? This World Toilet Day (Nov 19), Shawn “The Puru” Shafner talks with Barbara Penner, pedigreed architectural history expert*, feminist, and prolific toilet academic. Wanna know more about that space we call Bathroom? She literally wrote the book, along with many others. From Victorian women who peed covertly in church pews, to the tinkle sprinkle left on the toilet seat, j...2016-11-191h 13
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Christina Irene!!!Faster than a speeding bowel! More powerful than a laxative! Able to leap small-minded men in a single bound! In this episode, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) sits down with real-life Superwoman Christina Irene: writer, trainer, stand-up comedian, and a powerful advocate for women's empowerment and those with invisible disabilities. Did I mention that she also has IBS, suffered laxative dependence while on tour, helped grandma shop for colostomy bag accessories, AND sits on the board of her local Sewer Authority? Yeah. That, too. Join in for a truly super-sized conversation covering everything from identity politics to Brazilian bidets, and wh...2016-11-031h 19
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Lil' Tinklers Part 2: Rachel Mullen and Dan MarksThis past August, Shawn Shafner traveled to Brattleboro, VT to join Urine Diversion Summit 2016—a conference brimming with pee-ple making waves over how we “make water.” While The Puru didn’t want to disrupt the flow, he was able to divert a few participants away from micturation and into the microphone for some short interviews. Thus: The Lil’ Tinklers. In Part 2, wee-wee will learn about how shaking the dew off your lily can affect the frogs on their pads, and how wastewater treatment plants are struggling to keep up with the stream. First we’ll meet Rachel Mullen, a gr...2016-09-3042 minSHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Lil' Tinklers Part 1: Hannah Ray, Daniella Saetta and Cat BryarsThis past August, Shawn Shafner traveled to Brattleboro, VT to join Urine Diversion Summit 2016—a conference brimming with pee-ple making waves over how we “make water.” While The Puru didn’t want to disrupt the flow, he was able to divert a few participants away from micturation and into the microphone for some short interviews. Thus: The Lil’ Tinklers. In Part 1, wee-wee will learn about how eco-toilet systems succeed, and why they sometimes don’t. First, we’ll meet Daniella Saetta and Hannah Ray, two women diving unabashedly into the urinal to understand how the minerals in your pee clog...2016-09-2943 min
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Pee and Prosperity: Kim Nace of the Rich Earth InstituteWhat do you get when you mix 5,000 gallons of urine and 5 acres of hay? It might just be the future of our food. In this episode, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) talks to Kim Nace, co-founder of the Rich Earth Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont, where hundreds of local citizens collect their pee for science. But this is no kids stuff--the Rich Earth Institute is blazing a new trail and quickly gaining the attention of big-name foundations, National Geographic, and even the US Government. Tune in to understand why our pee is polluting the planet, how we can turn that waste...2016-08-161h 08
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)You're Tuned to CBS: SOIL's Sasha Kramer, Kory Russel and Container Based SanitationWhen is a five gallon bucket of poop more than just a five gallon bucket of poop? In this episode, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) s(h)its down with Sasha Kramer, co-founder and Executive Director of SOIL, and engineer/academic Kory Russel of re.source. Their Container Based Sanitation model is creating health and wealth in Haiti--one five gallon composting toilet at a time. We’ll discuss the energetic content of a lump of poop, delve into the roots of waste-making culture, and find out how SOIL harnesses the power of ecosystems to address basic human needs during a st...2016-06-231h 12
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Thinx’ Miki Agrawal: Pizza, Periods, Pee and PoopThere’s so much happening in our underwear zone: poop, pee, period blood. And Miki Agrawal is tackling them all, with a side of vegan, gluten-free, farm-to-table pizza. This week, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) sits down with the serial entrepreneur and creator of Wild pizzerias, Thinx period underwear, Icon incontinence underwear, Tushy attachable bidets and an empowering guide to living your dream called Do Cool Sh*t. Amidst bites of kale, Miki and Shawn ask the big questions: how can science, humor, sex, sustainability and design help us change taboo narratives and sell products? Why does it take the aver...2016-05-1753 min
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)The Sex Episode: A Podcast Collision with Sex for Smart People* (*that means you)Sex and poop. Both are natural parts of having a body. Both can be intensely pleasurable. And both are rich boiling pots of shame and cultural baggage. Which is why The Puru has teamed up with S. Ryan Johnstone and Dave McGee of Sex for Smart People* (*that means you) to bring you this very special episode tackling the mother of all modern taboos. Join us for a thoughtful, compassionate, super-honest and often hilarious hour addressing anal sex, safe scat play, and how looking at your toilet paper might just make you a better lover. Did I mention there’s a...2016-04-261h 05
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Pooping Gold: Transforming Trauma with Amanda MillerMight the way to enlightenment just be through your anus? In this episode, The Puru cozies butt-up with Amanda Miller--writer, actor, massage therapist, yogi, and compulsively creative person--in order to investigate the inner alchemy of transforming our shit to gold. Hear how Amanda's trauma became the driving force behind her memoir and solo show One Breath, Then Another, why hemorrhoid cream should be renamed "embarrassment balm," and learn the best position for kegeling your way to nirvana. Try it at home, and let us know how it goes on our social media pages!
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SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)American Wasteland: Dr. Daniel Gerling Gets Down with DoodieConstipated? Take relief: it's probably not because your sphincter is too tight. In this month's episode of SHHH, The Puru sits down with Dr. Daniel Gerling, Assistant Professor at Augustana University and perhaps the foremost expert on poop history in the United States (who else could write the dissertation, "American Wasteland: A Social and Cultural History of Excrement, 1860-1920"?). Hear Danny explain why American occupiers collected over 120,000 jars of Filipino feces, how the demodex (eyelash mite) may be the only creature that doesn't poop, and why sphincter expanders were recommended as a cure for constipation in the early 1900s...2016-02-161h 02
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)The Loo Lady: Rachel EricksonWanna know how your floating ball cock measures up? In this episode, Shawn “The Puru” Shafner sits down with Rachel “The Loo Lady” Erickson. Rachel spent the past few years leading critically-acclaimed Loo Tours in London. Now back in the States, The Loo Lady explains how her unwillingness to pay-per-pee led to a full time job in the john, and trades toilet stories with The Puru, from ancient Rome through Medieval Europe and the modern day. Oh, and if you want to check out someone’s floating ball cock, just look inside their toilet tank! Thomas Crapper may not have inven...2016-01-121h 09
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Jibril: Five Year-Old GastroenterologistThe Puru may have finally met his match. Jibril is an extraordinary five year-old living in the Bronx who just happens to be obsessed with digestion. In this episode of SHHH, Jibril schools Shawn on why poop should resemble bananas instead of asteroids, explains the genesis of the pyloric sphincter, and meditates on the difference between half-digested food and poop. Joined by his mother Fatima and a league of lego models, Jibril will refresh your knowledge of basic biology and redefine cuteness while saying words like "penis," "gallbladder," and "hepatopancreatic duct" in all innocent earnestness.
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SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Celebrating World Toilet Day 2015 with Tom KeatingThe Puru, Shawn Shafner, is gearing up for November 19, when the United Nations and people around the globe will celebrate World Toilet Day. And where better to celebrate than Atlanta, Georgia with Tom Keating of Project CLEAN? A self-pronounced “toileteer,” Tom tells us how school bathrooms can be key to building global citizenship, why sanitation is key to nutrition (this year’s World Toilet Day theme), and where The Puru will be raising a stink in Atlanta this year.
Mentioned in Podcast: Shawn Shafner, Tom Keating, Jack Sim, World Toilet Organization, Thilo Panzerbieter, German Toilet Organization, Bindes...2015-11-1753 min
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Author of Poop Culture - Dave PraegerShawn, The Puru, sits down with Dave Praeger, whose book “Poop Culture: How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product,” catalyzed The POOP Project. Creator of Poop Report, the web’s first intellectual hub for scatology, Praeger details how a humorous side project became a full-fledged (and highly researched) book, how poop’s contaminating effect has led him to create a secret identity, and why he eventually got out of the “business.”
Mentioned in Podcast: Shawn Shafner, Dave Praeger, Poop, S**t, Shame, Taboos, Potty, Squatty Potty, Poop Report, Poop Culture, Marketing, Contamination Theory, Aurora, Denver, Color...2015-10-2037 min
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Bobby Edwards - Squatty Potty Inventor & CEOShawn is thrilled to talk to Squatty Potty creator Bobby Edwards about the undeniable anatomical superiority of squatting over sitting to poop, and how shameful Victorian taboos have all but erased the practice for 'modern' Americans. They also touch on the constipation which plagued Bobby’s mom (and business partner) eventually giving rise to the SquattyPotty, and the parallel overcoming of Gay shame and repression that have enabled Shawn and Bobby to go proud in more ways than one. Finally Bobby shares his branding secrets for getting a poop-themed product in Bed, Bath & Beyond, thanks to his recent appearance on Sh...2015-09-1252 min
SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)"Contamination Theories" or "3 Gays In A Room" with Jamie Benson, Dancer / Choreographer & Andrae Gonzalo, Fashion Designer - Pt. 1
Shawn, our Puru, talks to Jamie Benson, dancer, choreographer, and maker of shows such as the satire-drenched 'Bowel Movement', and 'Bathroom Follies', among others. In addition, Jamie’s partner, fashion designer Andrae Gonzalo joins this lively conversation focusing on shame, fear of contamination, and even damnation, from long-held taboos around homosexuality, non-conformity, and of course poop - in culture, fashion, dance and language.
2015-09-1225 minSHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)Shawn Shafner Is Passionate...About PoopShawn 'The Puru' Shafner is interviewed by friend, musician, and this podcast producer, Josh Sitron, on serious issues surrounding poop, and the inherent humor that arises automatically from such conversation. We get a background about Shawn's Poop Project (The People's Own Organic Power), his hit one-man show 'An Inconvenient Poop' and a general history of fecal matters and societal taboos around poop. By the end of the interview, Josh is so interested (and disgusted, but in a good way) that he proposes that Shawn and he produce an ongoing series of Poop casts. And here we are. WARNING: Eating oatmeal while...2015-09-1252 min