The Toilet Tapes 3: Owen from OCC Plumbing & Restorations

**Video:**
July 29, 2021

**Video:**
26:23

**Video:**
*unknown*

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## Episode Summary

**Audio:**

The Toilet Tapes 3: Interview with Owen of OCC Plumbing and Restorations

**Video:**

We talked to OCC Plumbing & Restorations about toilets

## Notable Events

* Josiah and Drew interviewed Owen from OCC Plumbing & Restorations about toilets.
* Josiah, Owen, and Drew watched a video about toilets flushing.
* Josiah, Owen, and Drew watched a video called "Vintage Crane Placidus/Walton Toilets!" about toilets flushing.
* Josiah, Owen, and Drew watched a video called "1992 Lamosa Sahara Punishment Day!" about a toilet being punished.
* Josiah revealed that Miles and Alex from *It's a Beautiful Day in the Gulch* could not be here for this recording, explaining their first absence from an episode of The Toilet Tapes. In lieu of their appearance in the episode, they sent Josiah a list of questions for Owen, which he read at times throughout the episode.
* Josiah, Owen, and Drew watched a video called "2004 Porcelamex toilet punishment day!" about a toilet being punished.
* Josiah, Owen, and Drew watched a video called "Procemex Toilet Punishment Day! (New Year Special)" about a toilet being punished.

## Notable Quotes

### Josiah

* "How did you first get into this hobby of filming toilets? And I mean, it's worth pointing out, like people might not realize, you are kind of *the* toilet account. I mean, you've got 2.2 thousand subscribers, I mean, you're kind of the cream-of-the-crop, so to speak, of toilet videos, so how did you get started and how did you become like *the* toilet account?"
* "Any toilet, dead or alive, that you could have."
* "You should open like a toilet museum or something!"
* [In response to Owen having around 3,500 toilet videos on his YouTube channel] "That is just an incredible feat. Like you must just be constantly filming toilets around the clock!"
* "Do you wanna become a plumber? Or is - do you str- or do you not wanna mix work and play? I mean, is it gonna ruin toilets if you start doing it as a job?"
* "How do you feel about the return of the bidet as a home item?"
* "So uh where should people - what do you wanna plug, or wh- not - no pun intended, of course, but is there anything you wanna plug before you go?"

### Drew

* "What pleases you? What makes you say this is a really good toilet?"
* "Are you always sad to see a toilet go, or are you always happy?"
* "I love the toilet destruction, it's a good thing to see."
* "It's a hobby that you can take with you wherever you go. That's a beautiful thing."

### Owen

* "I don't know, there just seems to be this little community where people go to various public restrooms and some people, including myself, even have collections of toilets. So it's not like a fetish or anything, it's just a weird hobby, sorta like cars or airplanes or computers, just something to just kinda see and you can see em everywhere, too."
* [On the topic of the [[Gulch Hell Podcast Toilet Tapes 2|thumb ratings seen in some toilet videos]] and whether there is an official rating system in place] "Well not really. It's - some creators sorta - like when you do a thumbs-up, it means the creator likes the toilet, thumbs down means they don't like the toilet, so sorta sideways means they don't - sorta indifferent about it, and sometimes people will go a little far and give it the middle finger, so yeah."
* [On the topic of what he looks for in a public toilet and what pleases him] "Well I personally like ones that are sorta old, have some style to them, have a real nice flush, and aren't too easy to clog."
* [On the topic of what toilets he would get in his dream restrooms] "I personally prefer like the 1950's American Standard Cadets, I'm not sure if you're familiar with those. I'd get the 1970's Kohler Stanwell urinals, and I'd have those in the Kroger restrooms. And for a gas station, I'd want something that people could abuse and wouldn't break, so it would be one of those with the flushometer valve on it, like you see in the public places. I'd probably get a 1970's American Standard Afton, and for a urinal I would get also a Kohler Stanwell."
* [On the topic of the main age group for filming toilet review videos] "They're mainly just people who are in their late teens, mid teens. Just sort of the age group because then when they get a job and move out or whatever, they don't have the kind of time to just go to every public restroom and film the toilets."
* [On the topic of where his dream toilet travel location is] "There is this abandoned toilet factory in a place called Kilgore, Texas, and it - basically, they left everything behind, there are stacks and stacks of toilets, there are rooms of toilets, there's all the manufacturing where they made them, and they just up and left one day, and that is a place I'd love to go."
* [On the topic of how many toilets he owns] "I have, well, about 120."
* "I mean, heck, you could even show me your toilet and I'd probably be able to tell you what it is!"
* [On the topic of whether old toilets are better than modern toilets] "Yeah, the modern ones - I know in the U.S., they had a - they passed a law or act - or I'm not sure what kind of rule it was, but they mandated that the toilets can use no more than 1.6 gallons per flush, and then in 2014 they changed it to 1.28 gallons per flush, so as the amount of water decreases it means that toilets, as you would expect, aren't as good, so before 1994 when the first one was passed, typically those toilets are a lot better than the modern ones."
* "I don't know that being a plumber would be for me."
* [In response to Josiah's question about if there's anything he wanted to plug at the end of the interview] "Well, to be completely honest, I'm not familiar with the term."
* "Well, pretty much what you said before. My channel name is OCC Plumbing & Restorations, I post videos daily, two videos at about 1 PM uh Central Standard Time, I think. And pretty much, that's all I have to say. So thank you for featuring me in this video, I'm very honored and wish you a great day!"
* "And -"

## Trivia

* This episode was performed in conjunction with Owen from OCC Plumbing & Restorations.
* This is the third episode of The Toilet Tapes, after Its Beautiful Day in Globehell AKA the Toilet Tapes PT 1 and Gulch Hell Podcast Toilet Tapes 2.
* This is the first episode of The Toilet Tapes that does not include Miles and Alex from *It's a Beautiful Day in the Gulch*. Josiah explained that they could not be here for this recording. In lieu of their appearance in the episode, they sent Josiah a list of questions for Owen, which he read at times throughout the episode.
* This is the first non-Cameo episode of the show to be released with no official episode art; the episode art displayed here is a screenshot similar to what was done for the monthly Cameos before they became feature films.
* This episode has two notably different episode titles between its audio and video formats. The audio version is titled "The Toilet Tapes 3: Interview with Owen of OCC Plumbing and Restorations AUDIO", while the video version is titled "The Toilet Tapes 3: Owen from OCC Plumbing & Restorations".
	+ Note: The title used for this Globe Hell Warning Wiki page was chosen because 'OCC Plumbing & Restorations' is the name of Owen's YouTube channel, not 'OCC Plumbing and Restorations'.
* When the video version of this episode was first released, the episode title of the video version was "The Toilet Tapes 3: Toilet Man". It was later renamed "The Toilet Tapes 3: Owen from OCC Plumbing & Restorations".
* This was the first episode where its audio and video versions were released on different days, with the video version releasing on July 29, 2021, and the audio version releasing a day later, on July 30, 2021.
* At either 26:20 for the audio version or 26:23 for the video version, this was the shortest episode of the show since Ticket Scalper Appreciation.
* This episode has different Episode Descriptions between its audio and video formats, as shown above.
* The audio format file name for this episode is toilet.mp3, which is notable because the file name for the first episode of The Toilet Tapes, Its Beautiful Day in Globehell AKA the Toilet Tapes PT 1, is Toilet.mp3, an almost identical name.
	+ Note: It is currently unknown if the similarity in file names was an intended reference or simply an oversight.