304: The Wrong Wipe Brain Junk

If you haven't figured it out by now, Amy is not afraid to ask tough questions! Today she talks butt health, bidets, and the dangers of wet wipes. It's funnier than you'd think, we promise.



Show Notes:



Business Insider: interview with Dr. Goldstein







Am I Doing it Wrong? Jan 2024



The Spruce: 7 Best Bidet Attachments



Splinter free toilet paper



History Channel: All the Ways We've Wiped



CBS news article about Johnny Carson creating a toilet paper shortage



And just in case you're not a dinosaur like Trace and Amy, this is Walter Cronkite



Transcript:



[00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome to Brain Junk. I'm Trace Kerr.



[00:00:05] Speaker B: And I'm Amy Barton. And today we're going to be discussing personal care, which is, I know, one of the things you come to brain junk for, because we care about you, and we want you to know you might not be wiping correctly.



[00:00:21] Speaker A: Oh, no.



[00:00:22] Speaker B: This is a hard truth that we need to share with you.



And this comes from Chris Barton.



[00:00:29] Speaker A: Oh, no.



[00:00:29] Speaker B: Who, like, we're sitting watching whatever we're watching on Saturday or Sunday morning, and he's, uh, is this a brain junk? And he sends me this article that's entitled bad news. You're probably wiping all wrong. And I'm like, yes, it is.



Okay, are you ready?



[00:00:50] Speaker A: No.



[00:00:55] Speaker B: Parents is going to be some low key anatomical terms. Shall we talk about Dr. Evan Goldstein? Absolutely. And he is a nationally renowned anal surgeon.



[00:01:05] Speaker A: Oh, wow.



[00:01:05] Speaker B: That is a very specific specialty. But if you need an anal surgeon, you want them to be nationally renowned.



[00:01:15] Speaker A: That's true.



[00:01:16] Speaker B: Proper functionality there is valuable.



So Dr. Evan Goldstein says that the preferred method of wiping is actually not wiping. He describes when you're looking at s