1 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: Works dot Com. Hey guys, welcome to Stuff to Blow 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: your mind. This is Julie Douglas and not with us 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: today is Robert Lamb, who unfortunately is suffering from a 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: really kind of horrendous case of laryngitis. So that is 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: why you do not hear his dulcet tones today. So 7 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: we thought we would rerun a favorite of hours for 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: you guys if you haven't heard it before. It is 9 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: all about wind breaking. That's right, farts. The status afflatus 10 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: is the actual name of this episode, and we hope 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: that you guys enjoy it. But before we get into 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: it and we get into the why and the how 13 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: of farts, I want to mention that there have always 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 1: been historically champions of windbreaking. Yes, I am talking about 15 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: Jonathan Swift, a master of satire and the author of 16 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: Gulliver's Travels. Well. He wrote an essay titled The Benefit 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: of Farting Explained. This was published in seventeen twenty two, 18 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: and in it he says it is translated into English 19 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: at the request and for the use of the Lady 20 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: damp Fart or her fought Shire by Obadiah Fizzle groom 21 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,479 Speaker 1: of the stool to the Princess of us Many in Sardinia. Ah, 22 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 1: there you go. And we also had Benjamin Franklin, who 23 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: in seventeen eighty one, when he found out that the 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: Royal Academy at Brussels was requesting a scientific essay and 25 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: would award prizes for the best papers, he said, Hey, 26 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: here's an essay urging the Academy to discover some drug 27 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: wholesome and not disagreeable, to be mixed with our common 28 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: food or sauces that shall render the natural discharges of 29 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: wind from our bodies not only inoffensive, but agreeable as perfumes. Alright, folks, 30 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: I think that's evidence enough that we've been thinking about 31 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: this topic for a long time, and that people have 32 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: been rethinking it in terms of it being not so 33 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: bad of a thing, pretty natural, right in According to 34 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: Dr Patricia Raymond, she's an assistant professor of Clinical and 35 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. She says, 36 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: if you pass gas, in most cases, you're eating more 37 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 1: healthfully than your friends who aren't passing gas, or at 38 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: least as much, I suppose, And she says that it 39 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: should be a badge of honor. So wind break on, 40 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: my friends, wind break on, Julie. What does a fire 41 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: breathing dragon have to do with the human digestion system? 42 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: A lot, it turns out, in fact, it has a 43 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: lot to do with gas and belching. And you guys 44 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: know that we we promised that we would roll out 45 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: an episode about inflate us, about gas, the toots parts, 46 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: you name it. If you promised, it was like a 47 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: blood oath to our listeners that we would do a 48 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: fart episode. But no one asked for by the way, 49 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: no well, no one ever asked for it, but it happens. 50 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: And so here it is an entire episode devoted to 51 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: the the interesting science of of cutting one as it were. 52 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: You said that with a question mark. I think it's no, 53 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: it's definitely interesting science. I think it comes down to 54 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: the individual listener. I mean, what, what is your individual 55 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: relationship with gas and A? Are you the type of 56 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: person who is repelled enough to where no amount of 57 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: interesting science is really going to make you respect flateut 58 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: in any way? Or do you? Or do you? Are 59 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 1: you already totally on board? And in science, the coding 60 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: of science can only make flateus all the more exciting. 61 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: My feeling is that everybody does it, so everybody should 62 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: have an interest in it. Well, everybody does it, but 63 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: people do it to different degrees, and people do it 64 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: with with varying degrees of pride or or or disgrace. Well. 65 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: As as I've shared before, I come from a various 66 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: schatological family, so this is a topic that has been 67 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: plumbed in the family. I'm not scared to talk about it. 68 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: And uh, I feel like there's lots of really great 69 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: information here, in particular this idea of this fire breathing dragon, 70 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: and this is fascinating to me. This was in Mary 71 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: Richard's Gulp. She spoke with a herpetologist, steven S Corp, 72 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: who became fixated on the question of why a python 73 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: or a boa has an unusually large see Okay, so 74 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: I see someone like this little digestive pouch. It's near 75 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 1: the colon and normally you see it implant eating animals, 76 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: and so he became obsessed with it. Why why which 77 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: is a python have this? So he tried to figure 78 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: out the role of the season, whether or not it 79 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: was just there, to break down the plant material in 80 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 1: the animal that the python had just ingested. Um, and 81 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,799 Speaker 1: he began to actually measure the amount of hydrogen coming 82 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: out of a python. Example, like what it was exhaling. 83 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: Affort was given a bunch of rats to eat, okay, 84 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: So he did that with something called a chromatograph, and 85 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: that measured the amount of hydrogen alright. What he actually 86 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: found out, though, was that the amount of hydrogen that 87 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: was being exhaled by these creatures was enormous. And I 88 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: think about this hydrogen concentration is flammable. These guys and 89 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: gals were exhaling something about okay, so what does any 90 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: of us have to do with belching or gas or 91 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: inflate us. Well, it turns out Seaquar has this really 92 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: great theory that early Man would stumble across, say, a 93 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: python that had just or was in the middle of 94 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: digesting a gazelle, and so as you know, the python 95 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: would be useless and trying to defend itself. Corrects just 96 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: eating this huge meal. Bloated. It's not gonna immediately runoff. 97 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: I never rum for another one, right, So early man says, 98 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: easy food. I've got dinner tonight. I have two things 99 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: for dinner tonight, right, I think that Mary Rich had 100 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: described it as Neanderthal for Duncan. Okay, so early man 101 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: or woman hauls us off to a campsite, there's a fire, 102 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: someone is being you know, joyful, and they began to say, 103 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: step on this python's head or they kick it, and 104 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: what happens. A huge flood of this hydrogen just rolls 105 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: out of the mouth, meets the fire, and then and 106 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: then you have a fire breathing reptile. Yeah. So she 107 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: course says, think about the thousands and thousands of years 108 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,679 Speaker 1: of these tales of bringing down a fire breathing giant 109 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: to your campsite, because I could see, on one hand, 110 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: someone could be like, whoa that thing can can breathe fire? 111 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 1: I was really I was. I was really lucky that 112 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 1: I didn't get toasted back there, or they'd see what 113 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: happened and they realized, well, this thing doesn't actually breathe fire, 114 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: but it sure didn't look like it. And I'm going 115 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: to claim that it does because I look all the 116 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: more awesome for having killed it. Slay it. Right, and 117 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,919 Speaker 1: I fast forward, you know, fifty years to modern humans 118 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: in eight year olds, all around camp fires trying to 119 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: light their farts, right, there. We have a long tradition 120 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: of this relationship with gas and man. Yeah, anybody who's 121 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,679 Speaker 1: read Mary Roaches Packing from Mars book about the space 122 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: program and human space exploration. Uh Now, so there's a 123 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: there's a lot of scatological content in here, because you're 124 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: talking about sending humans and their digestive systems up into 125 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: a strange environment that doesn't necessarily play by the rules, 126 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: and at the very least is contained within a very 127 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: small space, and inevitably you have astronauts that are going 128 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: to pass gas and uh. I believe it was measured 129 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: out to be like three coke cans worth of worth 130 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: of gas is coming out. So there were a couple 131 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: of interesting bits they're involving NASA research. One was a 132 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: quest of by um Edwin Murphy UH in an attempt 133 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: to find what what the ideal fart profile for an 134 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: anstro NOTT would be UM and basically they wanted a 135 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: little or no methane or hydrogen, because, as we just 136 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: touched on, hydrogen is explosive and methane is not desirable either. 137 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: But in his work, this guy Murphy had apparently encountered 138 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: one ideal astronaut candidate and then this is the quote 139 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: of special interest for further research was the subject who 140 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: produced essentially no flateut on one grams dry weight of beans, 141 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: as opposed to the average gut, which will during a 142 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: peak of flash ones period five or six hours post 143 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: being consumption passed anywhere from one to almost three cups 144 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: of latest per hour. So, uh, that is particularly interesting. 145 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: Interesting not only because NASA that you know wants that 146 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: ideal fart profile for an astronaut, or or that you 147 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: know you would given the chance, but that there are 148 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: individuals that are almost non farthers, which is interesting. It 149 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: is amazing to me because I mean, presumably again everybody 150 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: does this, and I do think it's very kind of NASA, 151 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: by the way, to try to recruit people who don't 152 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: do it so much, because, as we discussed in our 153 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: Emotions in Space episode, you can get dicey up there, 154 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: and if you're next to someone who keeps putt putting, 155 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: you know, for six months straight, that that can make 156 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:03,479 Speaker 1: things very tense. So let's talk about fart What is it? Well, basically, 157 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: the act of farting, of course, is the means by 158 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,959 Speaker 1: which the body rids the colon of unwanted gas. And 159 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: by virtue of that unwanted pressure, you have this gas 160 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 1: that builds up and the average person releases between five 161 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: and two thousand milli liters of this per day. But 162 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: but yeah, what does it consist of? Well, about its 163 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and methane and go again, 164 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: varying degrees of that depending on the particular fart parton 165 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: because some people don't produce methane. I think it's like 166 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: only one third of us produce methane yep. And most 167 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: of these gases are either swallowed inadvertently when you're eating 168 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: your food or released from the food as it is digested. 169 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: And uh, it's amazing because when it's in your body 170 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: it is odorless, and we don't think of it as 171 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 1: being odorless. Right. And the other key thing that of 172 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 1: the ingredients that I just listed that is odorless, all 173 00:09:56,760 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: the hydrogen, the methane, oxygen, all of it, that is 174 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: not the odor using content. It is that that is 175 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: responsible for the smell. Yeah, we'll get to that one 176 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: percent in a bit. Yeah, spend such a political term 177 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: in days. One percent. That's kind of funny to the 178 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: whole system exactly. Um, So, as you had mentioned we 179 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: do expel quite a bit of it. That the man 180 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: who inspired really thoughtful study of how much we expel 181 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: and even excessive gas is a man who in nine 182 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: complained of a five year epic bout of the twots 183 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: he Um. He contacted gas from entrologist Michael Levitt, and 184 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 1: in order to study the man, Lovett had to create 185 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: a baseline of normal flattist output so or flatists, I 186 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 1: should say, he recruited volunteers to keep flat too, graphic logs, 187 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: logs of gas activity, recording every stirring in every output. 188 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: He prefers that actually, but he did, and others have 189 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: relied on um studies that use a rectal tube in 190 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: collection syringes to determine average output. That is year old 191 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: way of trying to figure out how much people are expelling. 192 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 1: So basically the the farting in a jar scenario. Yeah, 193 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 1: but a little bit more foolproof and a lot more 194 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: going on, and the syringes there just to extract the 195 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: molecules and then to to figure out what sort of 196 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: molecules are in there. Um. These days, hydrogen output is 197 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: measured in the breath because a fixed percentage of hydrogen 198 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: produced in the colon, is absorbed into the blood, and 199 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: when it reaches the lungs, it's exhaled. Now, what he 200 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: found was that this man was passing gas thirty four 201 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: to forty two times a day. Okay, the baseline average 202 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: here of the humans who doesn't have any lactose intolerance 203 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,079 Speaker 1: problems is about fourteen to twenty times a day in 204 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 1: case you're wondering. So the problem that they've finally figured 205 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: out is that he was lactose intolerant. And as we 206 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:01,199 Speaker 1: learned before, lactose does not get broken down for some 207 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: people in the digestive excuse me, in the small intestines 208 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: hangs out in the colon, and then you have other 209 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: bacteria which we're breaking that down, and then you've got 210 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: the waste product of that bacteria, and you've got a 211 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: bunch of bunch of bunch of hydrogen being produced there. Yes, 212 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 1: of course, we're talking about humans as a whole in 213 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: regards to UH to flate us. But you can't help 214 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: but get into gender scenarios when you start thinking about 215 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: In fact, one of the articles that we were looking 216 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 1: at UH the art, the author made a point of 217 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: saying that men as as a whole. And she's really 218 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: generalizing here and painting with a very broad brush, and 219 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: I skilled her for it that all men are just 220 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: enthusiastic about their gas and just love it and crave 221 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: it and and laugh at it all the time. Yeah, 222 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: and model it. Really, I am not one of those men. 223 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: Like maybe that is the more baseline relationship between men 224 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 1: and fart, but I, for my own self, I don't 225 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: engage that style of humor. For the most part, I 226 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: will laugh at a fart joke if it is well 227 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: crafted um or in some way, you know, insightful. Um. 228 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: There have been occasionally they'll get me, like the Pristance. 229 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: There was a Sarah Silverman Show episode that was very 230 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: far heavy. She's she likes the farts. Yeah, and occasionally 231 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: that will work. I mean it's it's the right fart shop. 232 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: But as a whole, I do not. I'm more of 233 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: a stereotypical If you're gonna go with these stereotypes, I'm 234 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: more of a stereotypical woman when it comes to fart 235 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 1: gags and in self gas production than a stereotypical man. Okay, 236 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: so what I'm hearing is that you don't have a 237 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: cellar full of darts. No, I do not. Okay, all right, 238 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: this is good um. And it's interesting that you bring 239 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 1: out the stereotypes because you know, if it's were the 240 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 1: Victorian age, we would say, oh, well, women just don't 241 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: produce gas at all, right, it wouldn't even be a question. 242 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: But we do have data on it, and it turns 243 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: out that women have are seemed to be expelling more 244 00:13:54,800 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: gas than men as measured by the hydrogen exhaled. But 245 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,839 Speaker 1: Mary Roach questions this and says in her book, could 246 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: it be that the suppression of gas could lead to 247 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: a higher input of hydrogen exhalation? So maybe if you're 248 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 1: going with the stereotypical um, I almos, dont want to 249 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: say stereotypical female, but let's say, let's go with if 250 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: you're going with a fart avoidant person like myself, then 251 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: they are going to be less inclined to just let 252 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: it rip whenever the mood hits them. Right, So if 253 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: you suppress it, then you're going to absorb more of 254 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: it through your bloodstream and then you're going to exhale mark. Oh, 255 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: so the way you're kind of reversing it and farting 256 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: into your body, into your bloods you're just breath farting, okay, right, 257 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: and that makes it really a lovely thought, doesn't it. Yeah, 258 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: I think about that next time you you give your 259 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: significant other nice little kiss. Yeah, you know, I I do. 260 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: I should add one point about that ladies and farting. 261 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: I did work in a newspaper once and an individual 262 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: in the front office was terminated for engaging in a 263 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: farting contest with a with a with a customer. It 264 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: was it was quite understand it. It seems like it 265 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: was mutual farting. So I guess it was just like, hey, 266 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: this is a we're going to make an example of you. 267 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: We just fart with the customer. Maybe, you know, there 268 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: could have been some other politics involved, or maybe it 269 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: was just kind of this unwritten rule where if your 270 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: customer comes in and celebrates his or her farts, that's fine, 271 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: but then you were not supposed to then engage with 272 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 1: them in a contest of farts or you know, it's 273 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: it's kind of like it's it's okay, the customer uses 274 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: foul language to a point, but you're in then not 275 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: supposed to engage them in that kind of behavior. I guess, well, 276 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: maybe maybe she showed him up. Maybe she shamed him 277 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: and they lost a customer because of it. Was this 278 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: a gastrontrology office, No, this was a newspaper with We 279 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: didn't even have a flatest section, you know, just business 280 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: and sports. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know that I can 281 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: recover from that story. I feel like I need time 282 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: to think about that and chuckle. But we must go on, 283 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna chuckle about that later. Um, all right, 284 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: so let's talk about this or should we take a break? 285 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's take a break. Why not. When we 286 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: come back, we will discuss the one percent of the 287 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: fart that is responsible for the smell. We'll talk about 288 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: extraordinary cases of flateust. We'll talk about people who have 289 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: elevated um passing gas to an art form, and also 290 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: the big question, if you're in microgravity, can you propel 291 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: yourself across a space ship just by virtue of your own? Uh? Flateus? Alright, 292 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: we're back. So, as we've discussed of FLATEUS is carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, 293 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: and methane. And uh these are coming from stuff that 294 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 1: either gases that are inadvertently swallowed or it's released from 295 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: the food as we're digesting it. But none of it 296 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: produces the signature odors and it varies certainly, as we 297 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: can attest to. None of these elements contribute to the odor. 298 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: Is just a tiny one that makes the gas so foul, 299 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: that's right, that creates that singular bouquet of smell. Micros 300 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 1: really live for the most part in the colon, where 301 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: they attack and consume undigested food and in turn generate 302 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: their own waste products. So in the case of microorganisms, 303 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 1: waste usually means gas, and in the case of these 304 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: microorganism organisms, that gas can be the really ripe stuff, 305 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 1: usually molecules containing sulfur like dimethyl sulfide and method methyl um. 306 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 1: These are waste products that ferment and they build up 307 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: to a sufficient level and then they're released with the 308 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: rest of the gas in the bowels. And by the way, 309 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: we talked about this before, the birth of a fart 310 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: happens when uh, you're stretch receptors um in your colon 311 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 1: send a signal to your brain, Hey, I'm having some discomfort, 312 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: and then this fincter is loosened up and and and 313 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 1: the message maybe when you get a chance, please do 314 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: something about this or maybe this is really important. So 315 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 1: the next time you even have like a heavy thought 316 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: in the back of your head, um, we're gonna just 317 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: go ahead and let it go, even a heavy Yeah, yeah, 318 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: that's right. The brain will sit there and respond and say, Okay, 319 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: now you gotta tampa down, sorry, spincter, or yep, we're 320 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: overloaded here alright. So what brave soul figured out the 321 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: scent profile of flatus. Well, the same Michael Levitt who 322 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: helped to determine the output of late us also studies 323 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: the qualities of gas. These smell profiles, he recruited volunteers 324 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: to detect the three main elements of a heart so 325 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,919 Speaker 1: hydrogen sulfide, which is described as the scent of rotten 326 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: eggs uh meth and methiel that is described as rotting vegetation, 327 00:18:55,320 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: and dimethyl sulfide, which is oddly described as sweet mhm. Yes. 328 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: So he didn't do this as a cruel joke. I mean, 329 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: he wasn't just trying to you know, terrorize people with smells. 330 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: He wanted to see if the noxiousness of the scent 331 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: would correlate with the combined concentrations of these three types 332 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: of sulfur gases and it did. So the best part 333 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: of this, all this information is he took the data 334 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 1: and he reversed engineer to fart so he could use 335 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: the combined concentrations in other scenarios. Would would it be 336 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: safe to call this a frank and fart? Yes, it 337 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: would be absolutely Um it's a frank and fart. And 338 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:39,360 Speaker 1: he wanted to figure out the absorptive properties of charcoal 339 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: underpants or seat pads, which, by the way, is of 340 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: interest to the airline industry. Which makes sense, right, I 341 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: think that I said, go, airline industry, put charcoal in 342 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: the seat pad. Any degree to which you can cut 343 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: down on the on the amount of flatus in that 344 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 1: enclosed space on a long flight, the better, Yeah, exactly. 345 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: In speaking of a long fight or a spacewalk, NASA 346 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,399 Speaker 1: actually has used filters in the air circulation in space 347 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: suits with charcoal to help bind sulfur and then prevent 348 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 1: the astronauts from getting drive by farted every time the 349 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: air is recirculated. Yeah, because if they build up enough 350 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: along enough space walk, then fart madness ensues. I've heard 351 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 1: about fart madness, isn't earth. There are a lot of 352 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: I was looking on snopes to see if there were 353 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: any particular urban legends related to the farting of note, 354 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: and one of them was this bit that occasionally circulates 355 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: an emails about a man who who died because he 356 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 1: farted under the covers and uh and had the covers 357 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 1: up over his head. But that's just complete malarkey. That's 358 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: just a Dutch Oven. Yes, so so yeah, so death 359 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: by by death by by Dutch Oven not really a thing. Yeah, 360 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: And you can't try to, I mean, just for fun 361 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 1: Dutch Oven astronauts, right, No, No, I mean they go 362 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: through enough in the training. I'm sure they were, like, 363 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 1: you know, after you've been in that spinny thing than 364 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 1: I mean, we've all seen the right stuff. They went 365 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: through a lot of horrible things to to prove themselves 366 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: and to and to you know, to get their bodies 367 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: in shape and prepare themselves for this this experience in orbit. 368 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 1: So and keep in mind that the air in their 369 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: space suits is actually recirculated three times a minute. So 370 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: now another interesting bit from Mary Roach's book, Packing for Mars. 371 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 1: She talked to an astronaut by the name of Roger Crouch, 372 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,360 Speaker 1: and he was particularly interested in the idea of propelling 373 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 1: yourself through a microgravity environment like aboard the space station 374 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: via your own farts, and he said that the mass 375 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: and velocity of the expelled gas is very small compared 376 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: to the mass of the human body. So he tested 377 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: it out found that it produced no real effect, though 378 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: he did, uh, he did have this theory that the 379 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: underpants and the pants might be um prohibiting the expulsion 380 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: of gas, and so he but he did not get 381 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: to test this naked, but he apparently has lingering thoughts 382 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: that that nude farting in Mike gravity would potentially give 383 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: you at least a little push across the cabin. Yeah, 384 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: that really is not going to win the hearts and 385 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: minds of your fellow astronauts or space if you just 386 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: drop trial and then try to propel yourself with your 387 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 1: own parts. Can you imagine the dudas doing like the 388 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: crying in space videos and all the different viral videos 389 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: Colonel have Feld, Yeah, I wonder, I wonder if he's 390 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: on board for this. That's gonna be a big shock 391 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: when that when that YouTube video rolls out, that might 392 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 1: be the one that never really makes it to be right. So, though, 393 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: if you were going to do that experiment without underpants 394 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: and really truly tested, you would want to eat the 395 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: gassiest inducing foods that you could. And it turns out 396 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: that the most eruptive edibles are beans, carrots, raisins, bananas 397 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: just odd to me onions not odd milk and milk 398 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 1: products for the very reasons that we talked before about 399 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: milk being hard to digest and break down as opposed 400 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: to something like um, what say, meat, fish, great berries, 401 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: these are these have the least amount of complex carbohydrates. 402 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: It's it's this, uh, this really damning conundrum that that 403 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: I that I have encountered, and then I think a 404 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: number of people encountered that the healthier that you try 405 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: to eat. You know, you're trying, you're trying to eat 406 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 1: all these vegetables and these whole grains and lintels and beans, 407 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,880 Speaker 1: and it's just it's making you're gassier, and you feel 408 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 1: like you're being punished for this diet. Uh. Dr Robert 409 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: Lustig even put it this way. He said, in life, 410 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 1: you have two choices, it's either fat or fart. So yeah, 411 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,239 Speaker 1: it's true, like if you were to radically change your 412 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 1: diet from say a meat and a very little um 413 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: vegetable diet to grains and vegetables. You would really need 414 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: to set aside a couple of days to transition into that. Kid. 415 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,879 Speaker 1: You not, Well, there's that great Portlandia sketch where they 416 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,199 Speaker 1: go to the restaurant that has the raw food. It's 417 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: like an all raw food place, and they actually have 418 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: a a flateist patio with fans, the patio far patio. 419 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: That is just one of my favorite things, one of 420 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: those that that clip is just great because it's not 421 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: hearty horror laugh laugh, but it kind of speaks to 422 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: that whole experience when you do go to a rough 423 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,719 Speaker 1: foods restaurant or a vegan restaurant and the result of 424 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,439 Speaker 1: that afterwards, they just kind of brought it more to 425 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: the forefront. Yeah, it's it's a it's a clever bit 426 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: of of parody there and uh and and commentary. So 427 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: that's that is a fart gag that I at least 428 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 1: chuckle that sure, because really, when you get down to it, 429 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: every restaurant should have a fart patio. Now, as we 430 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 1: mentioned before, you you have a very rare individual like 431 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: the the individual that NASA uncovered who barely farted at all. 432 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,439 Speaker 1: Just the one person in the world, the one person 433 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: this mutant that that barely produces any flatus. But then 434 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: there is there's another side of that coin as well. 435 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: There the super fartre's the the extraordinary flat went individuals 436 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: that that make life so interesting. There's just thought that 437 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: some people have types of bacteria that produce more sulfur 438 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: than other people, so that could be part of it. 439 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: Diet is certainly part of it. And then of course, 440 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: as we mentioned earlier, some people are gonna have different 441 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: concentrations of hydrogen and methane, so some people are going 442 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: to be more explosive, which is UH. And I feel 443 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: like we've discussed this before, but it's it's more of 444 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 1: a serious issue when there's some sort of surgical procedure 445 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 1: going on, you know, with the colon UH in which 446 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: you're going to have to cauterize wounds with a heat element. 447 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: That heat element plus hydrogen methane that's built up that 448 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: can have literally an explosive reaction, which is not good 449 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: for anybody involved in that procedure. Now, I believe there's 450 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,680 Speaker 1: an ignoble prize that was given out this right, that's 451 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: where we discussed it before, but we Normally we say 452 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: it's just it's really very funny stuff, but this one 453 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,959 Speaker 1: um study was very serious because like, you know, what 454 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,919 Speaker 1: if if you are doing this procedure on someone, if 455 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: someone has a pole up and you're moving it, uh, 456 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: you don't want them to explode and die, right, So 457 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: that's that's one of the things that doctors have been 458 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,959 Speaker 1: really cognizant of, and these days they actually pipe in 459 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: a little air um and air that doesn't have flammable 460 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: carbon dioxide as well to try to dilute any methane 461 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 1: or hydrogen that might be left over. Although for anybody 462 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: who's gone to the guts or intrologists and and had 463 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: one of these procedures like a colonoscopy, then you know 464 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: that there's a lot of prep work ahead of time 465 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: to try to remove anything that might antagonize or create 466 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: a spark in your rectum. Another aspect of inflate us 467 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: in in the medical community is that it can actually 468 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,400 Speaker 1: be used as a disease fighter sort of. I mean 469 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: it's more like a canary in the coal mine, So 470 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: doctors can actually identify toughest spot viral or bacterial infections 471 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: of the gut in someone's gas So what they do 472 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: is they just perform this test where they collect a 473 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: stool sample and then they try to take the gases 474 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: um and they extract those gases from a aren't needle 475 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 1: and then they figure out the flateus molecules and the 476 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 1: machine then will analyze these molecules and tell you what 477 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,880 Speaker 1: the infection. Is. Pretty cool. That is pretty cool. Discussing 478 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: the various smell profiles of human flatus UH and ultimately 479 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: human waste. I keep coming back to horse excrement because really, 480 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: if you smelled horse excrement, it's really the best excrement 481 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: out there, you know, Like if you had to be 482 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: around a bunch of poop all day, it's really hard 483 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: to go wrong with horse. Yeah, Or you used to 484 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: used to work at a zoo, so you know that 485 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: there are various odors related to different different animals leavings, 486 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: and some of them were more pleasant than others. So yeah, 487 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,679 Speaker 1: it was funny because I worked in the administrative building, 488 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: but the keepers would come in and they had all 489 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: sorts of smell molecules stuck to their bodies. So they 490 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: might have been working with the Zeeber's that day, who knows, 491 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: But they passed by the elephants, and that took it 492 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,719 Speaker 1: all down. So the elephant not a good smell profile. 493 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: But the horse, the horse, I think is a good 494 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: good smell profile. So what do you think about the 495 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,359 Speaker 1: latest artist? Ah? Yes, do you think they're even concerned 496 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 1: with the scent profile? Well, it's it's interesting because first 497 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: of all, I should I should back up and say 498 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: that I was not aware of this until about a 499 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: year ago. I was recovering from Wisdom Tooth Removal, and 500 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 1: I was I was on pain pills and I was 501 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: taking I was reading the book Madeline is Sweeping by 502 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: Sarah Shoon Leen Binnum, which is a very dreamy book anyway, 503 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 1: It's like a dream within a dream with all this 504 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: surreal stuff happening. And then on top of that, I 505 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: was a little loopy um from everything else that was 506 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,959 Speaker 1: going on. But one of the characters that shows up 507 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: is a fart artist or a fartist if you will, 508 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: or a flatest or a flatty wist, but not a flattist, 509 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: not a flautist. That's uh, that's something that's something different entirely. 510 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: But turns out there's one individual that was a particular 511 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: note and it was this was a Frenchman whose real 512 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: name was Joseph Pugel Uh lived eight fifty seven to five, 513 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: but his stage name was Domain Uh, and he was 514 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: known for having remarkable control over his abdominal muscles and 515 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: uh he seemed to be able to just fart at will, 516 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: just NonStop, just well beyond the three coke cans of 517 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: flatists that any normal individual could could muster. But there 518 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: was a secret to what he could actually do. Um 519 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: he Uh. He had again phenomenal control over the muscles 520 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: down there, particularly the anal sphincter muscles, and he could 521 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: actually inhale air through the shincter and then release it. 522 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: So he wasn't that he was releasing gas that was 523 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: built up as part of this natural farting process that 524 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: we've discussed in this episode. Rather he was inhaling air 525 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: into the rectum and then releasing it again. Wow. So 526 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: we talked about reverse feeding in our last podcast. Yeah, yeah, right, Yeah. 527 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: It's kind of like if you've ever been generally you'll 528 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: occasionally count our kid who's doing this where they'll burp 529 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: over and over again because they're inhaling the air and 530 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: then they're brobing inhaling the air, and then burping. He 531 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: was doing the same thing, but with his bottom. I 532 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: would love to tell some stories about my family, but 533 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: I don't think that would be correct. All I can 534 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: say is that I think maybe in past generations we've 535 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: had some artists excellent. So anyway, on that note, we 536 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 1: should probably bring closure to this. Yes, let's let's call 537 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: over the robot. Well, that was a robotic fart, I know, 538 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: but really, I mean, I thought this was a really 539 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: classy episode on farts, and here Arnie had to come 540 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: and stick up the joint. It doesn't really smell. I 541 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: mean it just it smells like a train passing in 542 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: a subway or something, you know, kind of not really, 543 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: but don't do it again. Okay, here's some mail from 544 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: our robot. This one is from Adam Adam Rights, and 545 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: he's for solving to responding to our episode Eating Alive, 546 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: where we talked about the prospect of being swallowed whole 547 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: by a sperm whale. And he says, Okay, let's say 548 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 1: I was swallowed whole by a whale. I'm alive and 549 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: uninjured in the pre stomach. The situation looks grim, but 550 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: alas all hope is not lost, because how did I 551 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: get there. I was inspecting a gaping maw of a 552 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: giant whale while scuba diving. I have a full tank 553 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: of air and a very sharp dive knife, as does 554 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: any diver. Worth is salt and a healthy desire to live. 555 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: What are my chances of jabbing and slicing my way 556 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: to freedom? Slim to none? Well, uh, yeah, it's a 557 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 1: tough one because certainly, those the squid that are being 558 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 1: swallowed by the sperm whale, they have rather tough beaks, 559 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: so they don't have any bones otherwise, so they can 560 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 1: kind of they're sort of jelatinous in the way that 561 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: they can contort their bodies. Yeah, but they could they 562 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: have the ability to to use that beak on the predator. 563 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: They're able to to use their their their little suction 564 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 1: cups with the with the the sharp things. And then 565 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: you see the scars and the sides of sperm whales 566 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: where they've they've suckered and and and picked at them, 567 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: and well that's creates the amber kies right there. Yeah. Yeah, 568 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 1: and then yeah, and then of course once they passed 569 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 1: the the beaks on they we discussed in that episode 570 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 1: end up scarring the side of the intestinal walls. So 571 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: I don't I feel like if you were too to 572 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: try to use that knife and fight your way out, 573 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: that you're just it's gonna cause the sperm whale to 574 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: really gnash its teeth even more. Yeah, and and chaos 575 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: wouldn't sue. Yeah, No, it hasn't already. Yeah, I'm thinking that. 576 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: I mean, certainly you're not going to cut your way out. 577 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 1: I guess the only the only possibility here was if 578 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 1: you somehow create enough of the disturbance to where it 579 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 1: vomits you. Oh right, if you could just stick your 580 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 1: finger down its throat. Yeah, Or I think I think 581 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 1: Pinocchio escaped by started they started a little fire, right, 582 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: and the smoke builds up, and then then the creature 583 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: sneezes everyone free. So this is kind of you. Obviously 584 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: you're not going to start a fire in there, um, 585 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: but if you were to stab away and start stabbing 586 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,719 Speaker 1: the size, would you possibly be able to get those 587 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 1: firm let us pit you up? Well, I tend to 588 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 1: doubt it. If you had a little pocket of poison, 589 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: but then you're going to expose yourself to that poison 590 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: as well. Right, I'm trying to think of ways that 591 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: you could make it regurgitate. I don't know. I bet, 592 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 1: I bet you guys out there might have some idea. 593 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 1: Think it over. I would like to to hear some 594 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 1: people's thoughts and man and hey, mate, you know, if 595 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 1: you get a spare moment here and there, maybe I'll 596 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: try and contact an expert on this. Someone who's survived 597 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: thinks walled by the way. All you all right? There 598 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: you go. Everything you may or may not have wanted 599 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 1: to know about cutting the cheese, breaking the wind, crop dusting, 600 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: farting latest my friends. 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