SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)
aka Shit And Shame With Shawn. Join Shawn Shafner 'The Puru', performer, activist, and educator for serious but entertaining talk about poop, fecal matters, LGBT shame and other unnameable taboos that clog our bodies, minds, and communities. Shawn and his esteemed guests talk (and might even sing) about taking responsibility for our literal shit and our metaphorical shit, to transform them from waste to resource. It’s time to get our shit together, before it hits the fan.
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 31
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2018
Here We Go “Around the Toilet” with Charlotte Jones and Jen Slater
Disability, 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 …
Oh, SuSanA: Oxfam’s Esther Shaylor and the Online Sanitation Portal
Human-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…
POOP TALK Director Aaron Feldman Brings Fecal Matters to Film
Taboo-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, E…
Muck Makes Brass: Scaling Social Impact with Andy Narracott
Business 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 / …
Shame on Who? Jennifer Barr Researches Development with Dignity
Community 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 ho…
Wee My Valentine: An Hour with Wastewater Expert Nancy Love
Art Monastery Project: Creativity, Community, Contemplation and a Compost Toilet
What 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…
Designing Out of the Pot: Mathew Lippincott
Legalizing 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 enlig…
Empowered by Plastic Crotch Devices: Krista Eickmann from The pStyle Company
Sustainable 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 (Th…
Food Waste Wizard: Composting with WeRadiate’s Sashti Balasundaram
Got 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, cr…
Poop on A Pedestal: The National Poo Museum’s Dan Roberts
Passion 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 im…
Jurassic Poop: The American Museum of Natural History Loans Us Carl Mehling
In 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 co…
Turds, Trash and Tweets: A Conversation with Raul Pacheco-Vega
In 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 wate…
Olga Gershenson: Transgender Rights to Toilets, Internet Trolls, and the Secret Language of Nerds
In 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 …
Public Women and the Public Convenience: An Hour with Barbara Penner
What 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 hav…
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 I…
Lil' Tinklers Part 2: Rachel Mullen and Dan Marks
This 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…
Lil' Tinklers Part 1: Hannah Ray, Daniella Saetta and Cat Bryars
This 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…
Pee and Prosperity: Kim Nace of the Rich Earth Institute
What 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 Ea…
You're Tuned to CBS: SOIL's Sasha Kramer, Kory Russel and Container Based Sanitation
When 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,…