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Speaker 1: Farts would be a great follow up. Surely there should

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Speaker 1: even our super producer Casey Pegrum. Just it's just a

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Speaker 1: medical fact that people do this. However, the vast majority

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Speaker 1: Flatti list. It's true, Ben, it's true, and this date's

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Speaker 1: don't know, maybe it's exactly as far as you might think.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's even less far than you would think. But

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Speaker 1: with us, folks to the reign of King Henry the Second.

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Speaker 1: There's a great line about King Henry the Second from

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Speaker 1: But that'd be funny. That would be funny and sad.

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Speaker 1: So King Henry two, who reigned from the December of

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Speaker 1: ridiculous historians, that he also had a notoriously popular jester.

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Speaker 1: but I that is what I'm reading here. He is

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Speaker 1: Brittain's Got Talent. Uh. Simon Cowell called him a disgusting

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Speaker 1: creature did in fact call him that. That's true, but

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Speaker 1: he also Mr Methane not Simon got to the German

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Speaker 1: version of the show Dos Super Talent. He made it

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Speaker 1: to the semifinals. Uh. The winner was actually a dog.

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Speaker 1: You know. The Germans are into that stuff. You can

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Speaker 1: which is still up Mr methane dot com. He also

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Speaker 1: you know, an admittedly niche talent, but very much you know,

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Speaker 1: heroes like rolland the Farter and La Peto Main. And

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Speaker 1: since we promised it in the beginning, we can go

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Speaker 1: ahead while while we're on the subject of farts, tell

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Speaker 1: you the world's oldest joke. It has been traced back

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Speaker 1: to nineteen hundred b c E. And it is Samarian.

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Speaker 1: Uh these the Marians lived and was now southern Iraq.

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Speaker 1: And here it goes. Tell us if you think it

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Speaker 1: still translates something which has never occurred since time immemorial,

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Speaker 1: her husband's lap. That's it. That's the joke. Stand. I

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Speaker 1: don't get it either. It feels like maybe there's some

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Speaker 1: But it's it's neat that the world's oldest joke is

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Speaker 1: I just don't think. I just I like, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: This might surprise some of us, learned, was La petel

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Speaker 1: Man himself. He did not want to denigrate or diminish

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Speaker 1: the quality of his artistry and impressions. He was a fartiste.

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Speaker 1: He had been working on this craft for many years.

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Speaker 1: I don't even think we we said that that from

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Speaker 1: he had been like working on this stuff for like

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Speaker 1: picture him staying up late night at the bakery just

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Speaker 1: I think this was a pretty good one. This is

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Speaker 1: this is some fascinating stuff. I gotta speak up in

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Speaker 1: defensive farts though. I wonder how many times we said

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Speaker 1: the word fart in this episode. Well, we've certainly said

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Speaker 1: the word more often than hopefully either of us have

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Speaker 1: actually farted during this recording. Well, I don't know, man,

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Speaker 1: didn't you have a stat about how often in a

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Speaker 1: not like they're like big, you know, boisterous ones. Then

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Speaker 1: it's just like that that kind of regulation of your gas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like I said in the top of the show, it's

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Speaker 1: it's about a leader to one point five leaders of

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Speaker 1: gas per day, and most people will tend to fart

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Speaker 1: on average about thirteen to twenty one times. So we're

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Speaker 1: all on this together. We're all in this together. And

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Speaker 1: as I was, as I was setting up in defense

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Speaker 1: of farts, if you ever feel guilty for laying a

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Speaker 1: particular stinker, remember your farts are going to be manufactured

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Speaker 1: by the bacteria that lives within your body. About of

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Speaker 1: your farts are created in your lower intestine, not by you.

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Speaker 1: So the true culprit of a smelly fart is not you,

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Speaker 1: but your bacteria. And that's why le Peto Mant and

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Speaker 1: other professional flash lists don't have that smell because they're

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Speaker 1: taking an air from outside and then expelling it. But

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Speaker 1: you're saying that the legit way, it's not even your

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Speaker 1: fault because you're really just farting your farts farts, right,

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Speaker 1: which leads us to a bigger question, who are what

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Speaker 1: are we farting inside of? Let us know what you think.

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Speaker 1: works dot com. You can check us out on Facebook

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Speaker 1: and Instagram. Or we are Ridiculous History and we should

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Speaker 1: thank everybody. Yeah, we'd also like to before we go

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Speaker 1: to our thank you issue, a clarification. Uh. Previously we

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Speaker 1: had attributed to episodes to our research associate, Christopher Haciotis. Christopher,

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Speaker 1: being the stand up, great guy that he is, wrote

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Speaker 1: to us off air to point out that those previous

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Speaker 1: two episodes were actually the work of our research associate,

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Speaker 1: Eve's Jeff Code. And you can find more of Eve's

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Speaker 1: work over at the Afropunk Solution Sessions show, as well

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Speaker 1: as Stuff Mom Never Told You So do tune in

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Speaker 1: check those out. Thanks, of course to super producer Casey Pegrum,

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Speaker 1: Thanks Alex Williams who wrote this track, and thanks to

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Speaker 1: you Noel, always a pleasure. You're welcome, Ben, goodbye,